Darling Range

American  

noun

1. a range of low mountains along the SE coast of Australia. Highest peak, Mt. Cooke, 1,910 feet (580 meters).

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Darling Range British  

noun

1. a ridge in SW Western Australia, parallel to the coast. Highest point: about 582 m (1669 ft)

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Darling Range

Amongst the very early explorers who did as good work as the scanty opportunities permitted, was Ensign R. Dale, of the 63rd Regiment, who pushed east of the Darling Range.

From The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Favenc, Ernest

On the Darling Range is found a red cellular structure capping the granite, assuming all the appearance of having been subjected to fire; it extends also in the low country about that neighbourhood.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea by Stokes, John Lort

The Williams is in the interior, and the Leschenault on the sea-coast, and between the two places lies the Darling Range, a high chain of mountains which had never before been crossed at this point.

From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George

The surrounding country is broken by the foothills of the Darling Range and intersected by roads, fences, and—here and there—small watercourses.

From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Collett, Herbert Brayley

Unfortunately, however, the comparatively lower altitude of the Darling Range led to there being no such flow of water inland as even those disappointing rivers the Macquarie and Lachlan had afforded.

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