<Ul> <Li> 1642--Aoraki possibly sighted by Abel Tasman and crew members </Li> <Li> 1770--Captain Cook named the Southern Alps </Li> <Li> 1851--Captain Stokes of the survey ship HMS Acheron gave the name Mount Cook to Aoraki </Li> <Li> 1894--First ascent of Aoraki / Mount Cook, on Christmas Day, by Jack Clarke, Tom Fyfe and George Graham </Li> <Li> 1910--Freda du Faur became the first woman to climb Aoraki / Mount Cook </Li> <Li> 1913--First ascents of the footstool and Mt Sefton made by Freda du Faur's climbing party </Li> <Li> 1914--First fatal accident, when three men were caught in avalanche on Linda Glacier </Li> <Li> 1982--Mark Inglis trapped in snow cave </Li> <Li> 1991--Avalanche of 10 million cubic metres of snow and rock causes 10 metres to be lost off the top of Aoraki / Mount Cook Two decades of erosion of the ice cap exposed after this collapse reduced the height by another 30 m to 3,724 m, as revealed by new GPS data from a University of Otago climbing expedition in November 2013 . </Li> <Li> 1998--The Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act officially recognises the original name, renaming the mountain Aoraki / Mount Cook </Li> </Ul> <Li> 1642--Aoraki possibly sighted by Abel Tasman and crew members </Li> <Li> 1770--Captain Cook named the Southern Alps </Li> <Li> 1851--Captain Stokes of the survey ship HMS Acheron gave the name Mount Cook to Aoraki </Li>

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