Mount Owen · 1,875 m · 39 km SSW

Mountain · Tasman District

Mount Arthur

1,795 m5,889 ft

Prominence: 683 m2,240 ft
Isolation: 21 km
Tonight: -1°CPartly cloudy · Wind 19 km/h W

Mount Arthur is a 1,795 m (5,889 ft) mountain in Tasman District, New Zealand.

All facts

Elevation: 1,795 m · 5,889 ft
Nearest higher peak: Mount Owen (1,875 m)
Region: Tasman District, New Zealand
Protected area: Kahurangi National Park
Coordinates: 41.2179° S, 172.6818° E

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3D map

Mount Arthur 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mount Arthur terrain and contours

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

Mount Arthur elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Arthur weather

Today · Partly cloudy · -1 / 8°C (30 / 46°F) · Wind 19 km/h W

Mount Arthur forecast for the summit, about 1,795 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 595 m.

Today-1°8°–19 km/h WBase 7 / 16°
Sun0°8°–19 km/h WBase 7 / 16°
Mon3°9°16.6 mm26 km/h NWBase 10 / 17°
Tue-4°5°1.0 mm20 km/h WBase 3 / 13°
Wed-3°2°5.5 mm22 km/h WBase 5 / 9°
Thu-3°2°12.1 mm24 km/h WBase 4 / 9°
Fri-3°3°–22 km/h WBase 4 / 10°
Sat-1°6°0.1 mm20 km/h WBase 7 / 13°
Sun-2°9°2.6 mm13 km/h NWBase 5 / 16°
Mon2°8°10.5 mm12 km/h NWBase 9 / 15°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 6.8 × 6.8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

12.5%

Moderate, 15–30°

47.6%

Steep, 30–45°

36.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

3.3%

Steeper than 30°: 39.9% of the 46 km² view
Relief in view: 1,198 m low point 595 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 58.1%Grassland 38.4%Shrubland 1.9%Bare rock / sparse 1.5%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.4 km; 386 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Fierce Speargrass68
South Island Edelweiss65
Korikori55
Mountain Daisy54
Helichrysum simpsonii52
Poranthera alpina46

Where it sits

Where Mount Arthur sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Tapuae-o-UenukuPeak · 2,885 m119 km SE

Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGMount Arthur satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2024-01-28.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 1,793 m at the summit; the official height is 1,795 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	1,795 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	1,793 m	-2 m
Copernicus GLO-90	1,783 m	-12 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024 (scene 2024-01-28)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia