Owen Stanley
Americannoun
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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
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Some units were flown over the Owen Stanley range.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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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