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Flinders Range

American  

noun

  1. a mountain range in S Australia. Highest peak, St. Mary Peak, 3,900 feet (1,190 meters).


Flinders Range British  

noun

  1. a mountain range in E South Australia, between Lake Torrens and Lake Frome. Highest peak: 1188 m (3898 ft)

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There are six specialist gardens, views to the Flinders Range and grey mangroves, emu and turkey bushes plus very rare plants.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2018

He went to Australia in 1833, in 1839 discovered Lake Torrens, and in 1840 explored its eastern shores and the adjacent Flinders Range.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

North and north-west of Flinders Range are large plains covered with stones, extending as far as latitude 25 degrees.

From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall

The only chance of success appeared to be to keep close to the north-eastern range, which Eyre named the Flinders Range, trusting to its broken gullies to supply them with some scanty grass and rainwater.

From The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Favenc, Ernest

He directed his course to the most distant point of the Flinders Range, but when he arrived there, he was obliged to christen it Mount Deception, as his hope of finding water there was disappointed.

From The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Favenc, Ernest