Great Dividing Range
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The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, p
Great Dividing Range
The Monaro Plains (right) are drier than the verdant western upslopes (left) as they lie in a rain shadow. (View of the Snowy Mountains region)
Great Dividing Range sign on the Kings Highway between Braidwood and Bungendore, New South Wales
Mt Feathertop viewed from Smoko
Cordillera
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A cordillera is a chain or network of mountain ranges, such as those in the west coast of the Americas. The term is borrowed from Spanish, where the word comes from cordilla, a diminutive of cuerda.
Great Dividing Range
…The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughly parallel to the east…
A labeled image of the mountains of the Cordillera del Paine, in Chile
Ancohuma and Illampu, part of the Cordillera Real subrange of the larger Andes in Bolivia