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Great Dividing Range

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A chain of mountains curving along the eastern coast of Australia.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia

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Examples

  • We originally place the Latrobe valley pits west of the Great Dividing Range.

    Australian Greens: 'We don't want to be just a coal mine for China' Jonathan Watts in Latrobe valley 2010

  • Now, huge truckloads of bananas have been seen rolling down the Bruce and the Leichhardt passing through the town of Banana, which is in Banana Shire*, a beef-growing centre and the Pacific and the New England and the Newell and the Hume and over the Great Dividing Range and rumbling into Melbourne.

    What I cooked last night. 2007

  • In the east, the crest of the Great Dividing Range passes through the center of the Desert Uplands, and drains westward into the Flinders catchment, eastward to the Belyando-Burdekin, or into the small internal catchment of Lake Buchanan.

    Mitchell grass downs 2007

  • The Southeast Australia temperate forests ecoregion lines the southeastern coast of Australia, heading inland past the Great Dividing Range and surrounding the Australian Alps montane grasslands ecoregion.

    Southeast Australia temperate forests 2007

  • The Yarra meanders its way down from the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, mountains that run much of the length of east coast Australia.

    Archive 2006-03-01 2006

  • The Yarra meanders its way down from the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, mountains that run much of the length of east coast Australia.

    At My Table 2006

  • Although the Great Dividing Range has some interesting escarpment areas such as the Blue Mountains area, and there is some nice mountain scenery here and there, the bulk of the continent is simply just not mountainous at all.

    phluid61 Diary Entry phluid61 2006

  • The Great Dividing Range runs this way and I am on the leeside toward the sea.

    Unmanned Stephen Oliver

  • He scraped over the Great Dividing Range, petering out up in this northern latitude, with about fifty feet to spare, always on the point of turning back, always seeing a faint break ahead that made it necessary to go on.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • He scraped over the Great Dividing Range, petering out up in this northern latitude, with about fifty feet to spare, always on the point of turning back, always seeing a faint break ahead that made it necessary to go on.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

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