With an elevation of 2,209 metres (7,247 ft) above sea level,[1] Mount Townsend is the second-highest peak of mainland Australia.

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 Macarthur's field book of the historical journey was published in 1941 by C. Daley[4] it further confirmed Dowd's clarification.

Due to Australia's much flatter topography than all other continents, a prominence cut off point of 300m is almost never used, cartographers opting instead for less strict definitions, such as 50m or 100m when classifying peaks.

If using the 300m rule this makes Mount Bogong in Victoria the second highest mountain.