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Flinders Range

American  

noun

  1. a mountain range in S Australia. Highest peak, St. Mary Peak, 3,900 feet (1,190 meters).


Flinders Range British  

noun

  1. a mountain range in E South Australia, between Lake Torrens and Lake Frome. Highest peak: 1188 m (3898 ft)

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There are six specialist gardens, views to the Flinders Range and grey mangroves, emu and turkey bushes plus very rare plants.

From The Guardian

He went to Australia in 1833, in 1839 discovered Lake Torrens, and in 1840 explored its eastern shores and the adjacent Flinders Range.

From Project Gutenberg

The first major advance towards finding the earliest animal life occurred in 1946 when Reginald Sprigg, a geologist for the South Australia government, was checking out some old mines in the Ediacaran Hills of the Flinders Range several hundred miles north of Adelaide.

From New York Times

The trip paid off with striking Technicolor scenes that Director Lewis Milestone shot around Sydney and rugged Flinders Range: a cattle stampede in a bushfire, a corroboree rain dance, a blistering dust storm and a slashing bullwhip battle between a couple of bushrangers.

From Time Magazine Archive

A range of hills, named Flinders’ Range, runs to a considerable distance inland, taking its rise near the head of the gulph just mentioned, and Lake Torrens nearly surrounds the whole of the low country extending from this mountainous ridge.

From Project Gutenberg