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Owen Stanley

American  

noun

  1. a mountain range on New Guinea in SE Papua New Guinea. Highest peak, Mt. Victoria, 13,240 feet (4,036 meters).


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We were hiking the Kokoda Track, a 60-mile path across the otherwise impassable Owen Stanley mountain range that divides the north and south coasts of Papua New Guinea.

From New York Times Oct. 22, 2010

When Eichelberger and his staff of the I Corps* arrived in Australia to report to MacArthur, Australian troops were still being pushed south across the Owen Stanley Mountains.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some units were flown over the Owen Stanley range.

From Time Magazine Archive

His airmen were able to do a bang-up job, flying men and supplies over the Owen Stanley range to his troops on New Guinea.

From Time Magazine Archive

The latter district is in a valley between the Owen Stanley Range and Mount Nisbet, to the south-west of it. 

From Adventures in New Guinea by James Chalmers

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