Great Dividing Range
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Great Dividing Range
also Eastern Highlands A chain of mountains curving along the eastern coast of Australia.
Great Dividing Range
pl n
(Placename) 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
Great′ Divid′ing Range′
n.
a mountain range extending along the E coast of Australia: vast watershed region. 100 to 200 mi. (160–320 km) wide.
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Noun | 1. | Great Dividing Range - a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony Australia - the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean Australian Alps - a range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range |