Location of Copland Pass in the Southern AlpsCopland Shelter on the eastern side of the pass at elevation 1,960 m
The Copland Pass (el. 2,150 metres or 7,050 feet) is an alpine pass in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Known as Noti Hinetamatea by the indigenous Ngāi Tahu, the pass follows the route of the Makaawhio ancestor Hinetamatea and her sons Tātāwhākā and Marupeka.[2]
The Copland Pass is on a traditional tramping route connecting Mount Cook Village with the West Coast of New Zealand, 26 kilometres (16 mi) south of Fox Glacier.[3] The Copland Pass is located on the Main Divide and is thus located on the boundary of Aoraki / Mount Cook and Westland Tai Poutini National Parks.[4]
The Copland River[5] on the western side of the Main Divide may have been named by the surveyor J. G. Roberts for Dr James Copland, an early settler in Otago.[6] Edward FitzGerald and Matthias Zurbriggen crossed the Main Divide just 500 metres (1,600 ft) further south in February 1895 and that pass, with an elevation of 2,109 metres (6,919 ft), has been named FitzGerald Pass.[7] A month later, the mountaineer Arthur Paul Harper was the first non-Māori man to cross the slightly higher Copland Pass (2,150 metres or 7,050 feet) and he named it for the main river draining its western side.[6][7][8] Jane Thomson was the first non-Māori woman to cross the pass in 1903.[9]
Since the mid-1990s, the eastern climb towards the pass has experienced heavy erosion,[7] and the Copland Pass has become extremely difficult to climb.[3] The Department of Conservation advises that only parties with a "high level of mountaineering experience and appropriate mountaineering equipment" should attempt the crossing, and that numerous fatalities have occurred over the years.[3] Furthermore, crossings should only be attempted from east to west.[10] The Hooker Hut on the eastern side of the pass, which was on the traditional route for the crossing, is no longer accessible, but is stranded on an eroding moraine.[11]
^"Place name detail: Copland Pass". New Zealand Gazetteer. New Zealand Geographic Board. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
^"Beneath the cloak of Aoraki - Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu". Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
^ abc"Upper Copland valley" (PDF). Department of Conservation. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
^"Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park Management Plan" (PDF). Department of Conservation. June 2012. p. 12. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
^"Maori Nomenclature". Otago Daily Times. No. 14927. 1 September 1910. p. 8. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
^ abReed, A. W. (2010). Peter Dowling (ed.). Place Names of New Zealand. Rosedale, North Shore: Raupo. p. 88. ISBN 9780143204107.
^ abc"Copland Pass". Climb NZ. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
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