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Definition of Great dividing range
1. Noun. A mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia.
Group relationships: Australia, Commonwealth Of Australia, Australia
Terms within: Australian Alps
Generic synonyms: Chain, Chain Of Mountains, Mountain Chain, Mountain Range, Range, Range Of Mountains
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Dividing Range
Literary usage of Great dividing range
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Australasia by Henry Rees (1907)
"According to some authorities, the " great dividing range" extends north and ...
The so-called " great dividing range " runs along the southern frontier ..."
2. A History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia: Or, An Account of by Julian Edmund Tenison Woods (1865)
"... Downs— Hovell and Hume—Difficult Ranges—The Murray or Hume—The Ovens —The
Australian Alps—The Goulburn or Hovell—great dividing range —Port Phillip. ..."
3. A History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia: Or, An Account of by Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods (1865)
"... Hovell—great dividing range —Port Phillip. It will be easily understood that
only very imperfect records remain to us of what was done in this manner. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (1907)
"Every objection which is urged against the great dividing range can be used ...
1 On the geological map of Victoria the term great dividing range appears, ..."
5. New South Wales: Statistics, History, and Resources by Henry Kendall, William Charles Wentworth, Year-Book of Australia (1893)
"A series of mountain chains—the great dividing range—runs nearly parallel to ...
The great dividing range consists of seven principal chains of hills and ..."
6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"Under the somewhat general designation of the Great Dividing range, they extend,
in a more or less continuous chain, from the extreme south-east corner of ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Late in the Tertiary period vast sheets of lava poured from many points of the
great dividing range of eastern Australia. But it is notable that all recent ..."
8. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The southernmost section of the great dividing range extends in a general west
and east direction through Victoria, with many spurs and mountains of ..."
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