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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Example Sentences

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

Some units were flown over the Owen Stanley range.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the Owen Stanley* range still stood.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Rattlesnake, one of the old class of 28-gun ships, was commissioned at Portsmouth on September 24th, 1846, by the late Captain Owen Stanley, with a complement of 180 officers and men.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John