Mount Townsend is a mountain in the Main Range of the Great Dividing Range, located in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia.
History
Mount Townsend was named after the eminent surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend, so named in 1885 by Austrian alpinist Robert von Lendenfeld.
There was some confusion on the historical identification of the summits named as Mount Kosciuszko and Mount Townsend for some time, which was clarified in 1940 by B. T. Dowd, a cartographer and historian of the NSW Lands Department. His study reaffirmed that the mountain named by Strzelecki as Mount Kosciuszko was indeed, as the NSW maps had always shown, Australia's highest summit. When James Macarthur's field book of the historical journey was published in 1941 by C. Daley it further confirmed Dowd's clarification. This means that "Targangil", mentioned in Spencer's 1885 letter to The Sydney Morning Herald, was the Aboriginal Australian name of Mount Townsend, not of Mount Kosciuszko.
Geography
With an elevation of above sea level,