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Darling Range
noun
- a range of low mountains along the SE coast of Australia. Highest peak, Mt. Cooke, 1,910 feet (580 meters).
Darling Range
noun
- a ridge in SW Western Australia, parallel to the coast. Highest point: about 582 m (1669 ft)
Example Sentences
Seen in its home on the Darling range, or the hills of Geographe Bay, the jarrah is a magnificent tree, running up to a hundred feet before it branches, and reminding the spectator sometimes of the rostrata, and sometimes of the giant gum.
In a typical fashion, I thought of the lore concerning the supernatural adolescent reading had brought me--the Superstition mountains of Arizona, dream time and the Darling range in Australia's north, the Snowmen, the Wendigo tales of the Coast Salish Indians.
The surrounding country is broken by the foothills of the Darling Range and intersected by roads, fences, and—here and there—small watercourses.
Two mountain ranges were discovered; one at the northern extremity of the Darling Range and about thirty miles to the eastward of it, lofty and altogether differing in character from the Darling, which at this point, where its direction is nearly north and south, is called Moresby's Flat-topped Range.
The other range is thrown off in a westerly direction from the Darling Range; it is about forty miles in length from north to south, of a bare, sterile, and barren nature, and terminates seaward in Mount Perron and Mount Lesueur; to this range I have given the name of Gairdner's Range: it forms a very important feature in the geography of this part of Australia.
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