Owen Stanley Range
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The Owen Stanley Range is the south-eastern part of the central mountain-chain in Papua New Guinea. Its highest point is Mount Victoria at 4,038 metres, while its most prominent peak is Mount Suckling
View from Owers Corner. The Kokoda Track crosses here.
Jungle clad mountains of the Owen Stanley Range in Central Papua New Guinea.
Owen Stanley
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Captain Owen Stanley FRS was a British Royal Navy officer and surveyor.
Owen Stanley Range
…point is Mount Victoria at 4,038 metres (13,248 ft), while its most prominent peak is Mount Suckling. Owen Stanley Range was seen in 1849 by Captain Owen Stanley aboard HMS Rattlesnake while surveying the south coast of Papua and named after him, although he saw them only from his ship. The eastern extremity of…
Captain Owen Stanley RN in 1837
HMS Pelorus at low water, Port Essington, Northern Territory, 1840 painting by Owen Stanley
The grave of Owen Stanley, RN, Cammeray, Sydney, 1850, by Edward Wolfe Brooker