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
A second prong was feeling its way down the "impassable" Owen Stanley Mountain Range of New Guinea toward Port Moresby, key to Australia.
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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.
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The Australians pushed on toward the gap at the top of the Owen Stanley Range.
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He was one of the first two men to find and mine gold in paying quantities in the Owen Stanley country....
From The Destroying Angel by Vance, Louis Joseph
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