• the height is 2,228 metres above sea level

• named by the Polish explorer Count Paul Edmund Strzelecki in 1840

• in honour ofthe Polish national hero General Tadeusz Kościuszko

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• a road to Charlotte Pass, from which it's an 8-kilometre (5 mi) walk up a path to the summit

• Charlotte Pass was closed to public motor vehicle

• also a road from Thredbo, which is a shorter 6.5 kilometres

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snow-covered in winter and spring

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1 Mount Kosciuszko2 Mount Townsend (behind and obscured by cloud)3 Snow pole line4 Head waters of the Snowy River5 Kangaroo Ridge, Charlotte Pass

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•the location of the downhill ski slopes closest to Canberra and Sydney

•containing the Thredbo, Charlotte Pass, and Perisher Blue ski resorts

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• Each year in December, an ultramarathon running race called Coast to Kosciuszko

• Paul Every was the inaugural winner in 2004.