Definition of Australian Alps

1. Noun. A range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Australian Alps

Austin Friar
Austin Friars
AustralE
Austral Islands
Australasia
Australasian
Australasian pig-nose turtle
Australasian pig-nose turtles
Australia
Australia Day
Australia Felix
Australia antigen
Australian
Australian Aboriginal
Australian Aborigine
Australian Alps (current term)
Australian Capital Territory
Australian Cattle Dog
Australian Cattle Dogs
Australian Desert
Australian Eastern Standard Time
Australian English
Australian Mist
Australian Mists
Australian Q fever
Australian Shepherd
Australian Shepherds
Australian Sign Language
Australian X disease
Australian X disease virus

Literary usage of Australian Alps

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1857)
"On the Australian Alps. By Dr. MÜLLER. Communicated by the COLONIAL OFFICE. ... The main journey to the central part of the Australian Alps I commenced ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... skirting the foothills o£ what are now known as the Australian Alps untu they reached & tne river, which was called the Hume after the leader's father. ..."

3. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"... and in Palestine and Syria—Traces of ice-action in South Africa—Glaciation of the Australian Alps—Glacial phenomena in St. Vincent Gulf—Pleistocene ..."

4. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1890)
"THE Australian Alps. General Survey—Formation—Beechworth—One Tree ... HE Australian Alps are the southern extremity of a chain of mountains which, ..."

5. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1888)
"THE Australian Alps. General Survey—Formation—Beechworth—One Tree ... HE Australian Alps are the southern extremity of a chain of mountains which, ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"The Tambo (120 miles long), which rises in the heart of the Australian Alps, crosses the Gippsland plains where the land is good, but only a small portion ..."

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