Jane Thomson
Jane Thomson (18 May 1858 – 17 July 1944) was a New Zealand mountaineer. She was born in Kaiapoi, North Canterbury, New Zealand in 1858. Her father was the farmer Donald Coutts, her mother Anne Mackay.
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Jane Thomson
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- 1858
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- New Zealand
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- mountaineer · photographer
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Jane Thomson (18 May 1858 – 17 July 1944) was a New Zealand mountaineer. She was born in Kaiapoi, North Canterbury, New Zealand in 1858. Her father was the farmer Donald Coutts, her mother Anne Mackay.
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Born in 1858, died in 1944.
Jane Thomson (1858–1944) was a New Zealand mountaineer and photographer.
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- 1.Hooper, Di. "Muriel Graham: The first New Zealand woman to climb Aoraki Mount Cook". New Zealand Alpine Club Journal 2006, pp110-112.
- 2.Mitchell, Lissa. Through shaded glass: women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860-1960. Te Papa Press. 313–317. 2023. 978-0-9951384-9-0.
- 3.McCormack. Trish. Jane Thomson.
- 4.New Zealand Alpine Club. In Memoriam Jane Thomson.
- 5.Tomsett, Ben. West Coast girl’s fundraiser to honour first Kiwi woman to summit Aoraki/Mt Cook. New Zealand Herald. 8 January 2026.
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