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
His Australians had had to build steps through the jungles to get cannon over the razorback Owen Stanley Mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Last week the Owen Stanley* range still stood.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A second prong was feeling its way down the "impassable" Owen Stanley Mountain Range of New Guinea toward Port Moresby, key to Australia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He had started from Sydney in the barque Tam o' Shanter, which was convoyed by Captain Owen Stanley in the Alligator.
From The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Favenc, Ernest
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