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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

His Australians had had to build steps through the jungles to get cannon over the razorback Owen Stanley Mountains.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the Owen Stanley* range still stood.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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