Australian Alps

American  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in SE Australia. Highest peak, Mt. Kosciusko, 7,328 feet (2,234 meters).

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Australian Alps British  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria and SE New South Wales. Highest peak: Mount Kosciuszko, 2195 m (7316 ft)

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Example Sentences

Surrounded by heavily wooded hills in the Australian Alps, Porepunkah is only about an hour's drive from the New South Wales border.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2025

While the study and policy change have both focused on the Kosciuszko National Park, there are Sphagnum mosspeatlands -- and feral herbivores -- across the Australian Alps and Tasmania.

From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2023

They are everywhere, from the desert to the snowy Australian Alps, often heard but not seen.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2022

The horses, an invasive species whose populations are booming, must be removed because they are trampling ancient ecosystems in the Australian Alps already hurt by climate change, they say.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2020

Mr. Hume, the first Australian-born explorer, and Mr. Hovell, took a party from Lake George, at that time the most outside station, to Western Port, and they were the first to see the Australian Alps.

From The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Favenc, Ernest