Great Dividing Range

noun

1. a mountain range extending along the E coast of Australia: vast watershed region. 100 to 200 miles (160–320 km) wide.

Great Dividing Range

plural noun

1. a series of mountain ranges and plateaus roughly parallel to the E coast of Australia, in Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria; the highest range is the Australian Alps, in the south

Example Sentences

But the soaking rains have also created fields of grass across the plains west of the Great Dividing Range, the mountain chain that runs up and down Australia’s eastern seaboard.

From New York Times

Jamieson, a small rural town 200km north-east of Melbourne, is mainly an agricultural area nestled beneath the Great Dividing Range mountains.

From BBC

They also looked at temperature and precipitation on their own, over an area of the states of New South Wales and Victoria between the Great Dividing Range mountain system and the coast.

From Scientific American

A 100,000ha fire at Corryong, on the northern side of the Great Dividing Range, and another fire of a similar size in NSW, are also at risk of combining.

From The Guardian

Exploratory work has started on a venture that has echoes of the original Snowy Mountains hydro and irrigation scheme in Australia's Great Dividing Range mountains, which was the largest engineering project ever seen in Australia.

From BBC