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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

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

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

The Australians pushed on toward the gap at the top of the Owen Stanley Range.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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