Southern Alps

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plural noun

a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island. Highest peak, Mt. Cook, 12,349 feet (3,765 meters).

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Words nearby Southern Alps

South Equatorial Current, souther, southerly, southerly buster, southern, Southern Alps, Southern Baptist, southern blight, Southern blot, Southern British English, Southern Cameroons

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How to use Southern Alps in a sentence

In the higher and more remote regions of the Southern Alps, never yet trodden by human foot, there was nothing left for me to do.
Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III|Karl Ritter von Scherzer
Immediately a descent upon the Italian valleys was planned, and a considerable force crossed the southern Alps.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Southern Alps

Southern Alps

pl n

a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)

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