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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA" title="غريت ديفايدينغ – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="غريت ديفايدينغ" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Cordal_Divisoriu" title="Gran Cordal Divisoriu – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Gran Cordal Divisoriu" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6y%C3%BCk_Suay%C4%B1r%C4%B1c%C4%B1_s%C4%B1ra_da%C4%9Flar%C4%B1" title="Böyük Suayırıcı sıra dağları – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Böyük Suayırıcı sıra dağları" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%98%D1%83%D1%80_%D2%BA%D1%8B%D1%83_%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%8B%D1%80%D2%93%D1%8B%D1%81_%D2%BB%D1%8B%D1%80%D1%82" title="Ҙур Һыу айырғыс һырт – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Ҙур Һыу айырғыс һырт" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8F%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D1%85%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%82" title="Вялікі Водападзельны хрыбет – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Вялікі Водападзельны хрыбет" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8F%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D1%85%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%82" title="Вялікі Водападзельны хрыбет – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Вялікі Водападзельны хрыбет" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9C" title="ग्रेट डिवाइडिंग रेंज – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="ग्रेट डिवाइडिंग रेंज" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Голяма вододелна планина – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Голяма вододелна планина" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serralades_Australianes" title="Serralades Australianes – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Serralades Australianes" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dividing_Range" title="Great Dividing Range – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Great Dividing Range" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velk%C3%A9_p%C5%99ed%C4%9Blov%C3%A9_poho%C5%99%C3%AD" title="Velké předělové pohoří – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Velké předělové pohoří" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Wahanfa_Fawr" title="Y Wahanfa Fawr – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Y Wahanfa Fawr" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dividing_Range" title="Great Dividing Range – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Great Dividing Range" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dividing_Range" title="Great Dividing Range – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Great Dividing Range" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suur_Veelahkmeahelik" title="Suur Veelahkmeahelik – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Suur Veelahkmeahelik" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%AC_%CE%93%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%AD%CE%B9%CF%84_%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%AC%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%B3%CE%BA" title="Οροσειρά Γκρέιτ Ντιβάιντινγκ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Οροσειρά Γκρέιτ Ντιβάιντινγκ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Cordillera_Divisoria" title="Gran Cordillera Divisoria – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Gran Cordillera Divisoria" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granda_Disiganta_Montaro" title="Granda Disiganta Montaro – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Granda Disiganta Montaro" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendikate_Banatzaile_Handia" title="Mendikate Banatzaile Handia – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Mendikate Banatzaile Handia" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B2_%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82%DB%8C" title="هایلندز شرقی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="هایلندز شرقی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordill%C3%A8re_australienne" title="Cordillère australienne – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Cordillère australienne" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deighiltraon_M%C3%B3r" title="Deighiltraon Mór – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Deighiltraon Mór" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Cordilleira_Divisoria" title="Gran Cordilleira Divisoria – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Gran Cordilleira Divisoria" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B7%B8%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%8A%B8%EB%94%94%EB%B0%94%EC%9D%B4%EB%94%A9%EC%82%B0%EB%A7%A5" title="그레이트디바이딩산맥 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="그레이트디바이딩산맥" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A5%D5%AE_%D5%8B%D6%80%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%AA%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%BC%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%B7%D5%B2%D5%A9%D5%A1" title="Մեծ Ջրբաժան լեռնաշղթա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մեծ Ջրբաժան լեռնաշղթա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="महान विभाजक पर्वतमाला – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="महान विभाजक पर्वतमाला" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veliko_razvodno_gorje" title="Veliko razvodno gorje – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Veliko razvodno gorje" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegunungan_Pemisah_Besar" title="Pegunungan Pemisah Besar – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Pegunungan Pemisah Besar" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Catena_Divisoria" title="Grande Catena Divisoria – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Grande Catena Divisoria" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%98_%E1%83%AC%E1%83%A7%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%92%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%A7%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98_%E1%83%A5%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%98" title="დიდი წყალგამყოფი ქედი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="დიდი წყალგამყოფი ქედი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%AE%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%80%D1%8B%D2%9B_%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8B" title="Үлкен Суайрық жотасы – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Үлкен Суайрық жотасы" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dividing_Range" title="Great Dividing Range – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Great Dividing Range" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagy-V%C3%ADzv%C3%A1laszt%C3%B3-hegys%C3%A9g" title="Nagy-Vízválasztó-hegység – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Nagy-Vízválasztó-hegység" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8" title="Големи Разводни Планини – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Големи Разводни Планини" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC" title="جريت ديفايدينج – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جريت ديفايدينج" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjaran_Pemisah_Besar" title="Banjaran Pemisah Besar – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Banjaran Pemisah Besar" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%85_%D1%83%D1%81_%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BD_%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%80%D1%83%D1%83" title="Их ус хагалбарын нуруу – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Их ус хагалбарын нуруу" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groot_Australisch_Scheidingsgebergte" title="Groot Australisch Scheidingsgebergte – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Groot Australisch Scheidingsgebergte" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%99%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE" title="विशाल विभाजक हिमशृङ्खला – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="विशाल विभाजक हिमशृङ्खला" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E5%B1%B1%E8%84%88" title="グレートディヴァイディング山脈 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="グレートディヴァイディング山脈" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dividing_Range" title="Great Dividing Range – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Great Dividing Range" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%82" title="Большой Водораздельный хребет – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Большой Водораздельный хребет" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dividing_Range" title="Great Dividing Range – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Great Dividing Range" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%BD_%DA%8A%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%DA%8A%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC" title="گريٽ ڊيوائڊنگ رينج – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="گريٽ ڊيوائڊنگ رينج" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ve%C4%BEk%C3%A9_predelov%C3%A9_vrchy" title="Veľké predelové vrchy – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Veľké predelové vrchy" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%95%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B2%DB%8C_%DA%95%DB%86%DA%98%DA%BE%DB%95%DA%B5%D8%A7%D8%AA" title="ھایلەندزی ڕۆژھەڵات – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ھایلەندزی ڕۆژھەڵات" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5" title="Велике разводне планине – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Велике разводне планине" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veliki_razvodni_masiv" title="Veliki razvodni masiv – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Veliki razvodni masiv" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Kordillieerit" title="Australian Kordillieerit – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Australian Kordillieerit" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dividing_Range" title="Great Dividing Range – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Great Dividing Range" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/The_great_dividing_range.jpg/544px-The_great_dividing_range.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1067" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="padding: 0.2em 0em;">Great Dividing Range</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #E7DCC3;color:#000;">Highest point</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Peak</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mount_Kosciuszko" title="Mount Kosciuszko">Mount Kosciuszko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Snowy_Mountains" title="Snowy Mountains">Snowy Mountains</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Summit" title="Summit">Elevation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2,228 m (7,310 ft)<sup id="cite_ref-KNP_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KNP-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Great_Dividing_Range&params=36_27_21_S_148_15_49_E_region:AU_type:mountain"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">36°27′21″S</span> <span class="longitude">148°15′49″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">36.45583°S 148.26361°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">-36.45583; 148.26361</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #E7DCC3;color:#000;">Dimensions</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">3,500 km (2,200 mi) North–South</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #E7DCC3;color:#000;">Geography</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.5em 0.2em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Topography_of_australia_great_dividing_range.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Topography_of_australia_great_dividing_range.jpg/240px-Topography_of_australia_great_dividing_range.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Topography_of_australia_great_dividing_range.jpg/360px-Topography_of_australia_great_dividing_range.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Topography_of_australia_great_dividing_range.jpg/480px-Topography_of_australia_great_dividing_range.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1040" data-file-height="972" /></a></span><div>The Great Dividing Range consists of a complex of mountain ranges, plateaus, upland areas and escarpments.</div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data label">Australia<sup id="cite_ref-AustraliDotGovDotAu_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AustraliDotGovDotAu-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">States/Districts</th><td class="infobox-data label"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Queensland" title="Queensland">Queensland</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Capital_Territory" title="Australian Capital Territory">Australian Capital Territory</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Range coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Great_Dividing_Range&params=25_S_147_E_region:AU_type:mountain_scale:17500000"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">25°S</span> <span class="longitude">147°E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">25°S 147°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">-25; 147</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #E7DCC3;color:#000;">Geology</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geological_time_scale" class="mw-redirect" title="Geological time scale">Rock age</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Carboniferous</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Great Dividing Range</b>, also known as the <b>East Australian Cordillera</b> or the <b>Eastern Highlands</b>, is a <a href="/wiki/Cordillera" title="Cordillera">cordillera</a> system in eastern <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> consisting of an expansive collection of <a href="/wiki/Mountain_range" title="Mountain range">mountain ranges</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plateau" title="Plateau">plateaus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hill" title="Hill">rolling hills</a>. It runs roughly parallel to the <a href="/wiki/East_coast_of_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="East coast of Australia">east coast of Australia</a> and forms the <a href="/wiki/List_of_longest_mountain_chains_on_Earth" title="List of longest mountain chains on Earth">fifth-longest land-based mountain chain in the world</a>, and the longest entirely within a single country. It is <a href="/wiki/Mainland_Australia" title="Mainland Australia">mainland Australia</a>'s most substantial <a href="/wiki/Topographic_feature" class="mw-redirect" title="Topographic feature">topographic feature</a> and serves as the definitive <a href="/wiki/Drainage_divide" title="Drainage divide">watershed</a> for the <a href="/wiki/River_system" class="mw-redirect" title="River system">river systems</a> in eastern Australia, hence the name. </p><p>The Great Dividing Range stretches more than 3,500 kilometres (2,175 mi) from <a href="/wiki/Dauan_Island,_Queensland" class="mw-redirect" title="Dauan Island, Queensland">Dauan Island</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Torres_Strait" title="Torres Strait">Torres Strait</a> off the northern tip of <a href="/wiki/Cape_York_Peninsula" title="Cape York Peninsula">Cape York Peninsula</a>, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through <a href="/wiki/Queensland" title="Queensland">Queensland</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>, then turning west across <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria</a> before finally fading into the <a href="/wiki/Wimmera" class="mw-redirect" title="Wimmera">Wimmera plains</a> as rolling hills west of the <a href="/wiki/Grampians_(region)" title="Grampians (region)">Grampians region</a>. The width of the Range varies from about 160 km (100 mi) to over 300 km (190 mi).<sup id="cite_ref-Shaw_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shaw-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Greater_Blue_Mountains_Area" title="Greater Blue Mountains Area">Greater Blue Mountains Area</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gondwana_Rainforests" title="Gondwana Rainforests">Gondwana Rainforests</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wet_Tropics_of_Queensland" title="Wet Tropics of Queensland">Wet Tropics of Queensland</a> <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="World Heritage Area">World Heritage Areas</a> are located in the Range. The highest place in Australia, the 2,228 m (7,310 ft) <a href="/wiki/Mount_Kosciuszko" title="Mount Kosciuszko">Mount Kosciuszko</a>, resides in the <a href="/wiki/Snowy_Mountains" title="Snowy Mountains">Snowy Mountains</a> portion of southern Great Dividing Range. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Dividing_Range&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Dividing Range does not consist of a single continuous <a href="/wiki/Mountain_chain" title="Mountain chain">mountain chain</a>, but is rather a combined complex (<a href="/wiki/Cordillera" title="Cordillera">cordillera</a>) of <a href="/wiki/Mountain_range" title="Mountain range">mountain ranges</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plateau" title="Plateau">plateaus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hill" title="Hill">hilly</a> <a href="/wiki/Highland" title="Highland">upland</a> areas and <a href="/wiki/Escarpment" title="Escarpment">escarpments</a> with an ancient and complex <a href="/wiki/Historical_geology" title="Historical geology">geological history</a>. The physiographic division name for the landmass is called the <i>East Australian Cordillera</i>. In some places the terrain is relatively flat, consisting of very low hills.<sup id="cite_ref-goa_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-goa-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Typically the highlands range from 300 to 1,600 metres (980 to 5,250 ft) in height.<sup id="cite_ref-goa_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-goa-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mountains and plateaus, which consist of <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">sandstone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Quartzite" title="Quartzite">quartzite</a>, <a href="/wiki/Schist" title="Schist">schists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dolomite_(rock)" title="Dolomite (rock)">dolomite</a>, have been created by faulting and folding processes.<sup id="cite_ref-eowg_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eowg-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Mountain_crest" class="mw-redirect" title="Mountain crest">crests</a> of the Great Dividing Range is defined by the <a href="/wiki/Drainage_divide" title="Drainage divide">watershed boundary</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Drainage_basin" title="Drainage basin">drainage basins</a> of <a href="/wiki/River_system" class="mw-redirect" title="River system">river systems</a> east (the coastal or <a href="/wiki/Windward" class="mw-redirect" title="Windward">rainward</a> side) and west (the inland or <a href="/wiki/Leeward" class="mw-redirect" title="Leeward">leeward</a> side) of it. The higher and more rugged parts of the "range" do not necessarily form part of the crest of the range, but may be branches and offshoots from it. The term "Great Dividing Range" may refer specifically to the watershed crest of the range, or to the entire upland complex including all of the hills and mountains between the east coast of Australia and the central plains and lowlands. At some places it can be up to 400 km (249 mi) wide.<sup id="cite_ref-goa_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-goa-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Notable ranges and other features which form part of the range complex have their own distinctive names. </p><p>As a <a href="/wiki/Rule_of_thumb" title="Rule of thumb">rule of thumb</a>, rivers east/southeast of the Dividing Range drain directly eastward into the <a href="/wiki/South_Pacific_Ocean" class="mw-redirect" title="South Pacific Ocean">South Pacific</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Tasman_Sea" title="Tasman Sea">Tasman Sea</a>, or southward into the <a href="/wiki/Bass_Strait" title="Bass Strait">Bass Strait</a>. Rivers west of the Dividing Range drain in various westerly directions according to latitudes: the <a href="/wiki/Murray%E2%80%93Darling_basin" title="Murray–Darling basin">Murray–Darling basin</a> in southeastern Australia (<a href="/wiki/Darling_Downs" title="Darling Downs">Darling Downs</a>/eastern <a href="/wiki/South_West_Queensland" title="South West Queensland">South West Queensland</a>, West/Central <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Victoria_Region" title="Northern Victoria Region">Northern Victoria</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Murraylands" title="Murraylands">Murraylands</a>/<a href="/wiki/Riverland" title="Riverland">Riverland</a> region of southeastern <a href="/wiki/South_Australia" title="South Australia">South Australia</a>) drain southwestwards into the <a href="/wiki/Great_Australian_Bight" title="Great Australian Bight">Great Australian Bight</a> via the coastal <a href="/wiki/Lake_Alexandrina_(South_Australia)" title="Lake Alexandrina (South Australia)">Lake Alexandrina</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-goa_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-goa-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the eastern half of the <a href="/wiki/Lake_Eyre_basin" title="Lake Eyre basin">Lake Eyre basin</a> in east central Australia (the <a href="/wiki/Cooper_Creek" title="Cooper Creek">Cooper Creek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Warburton_River" title="Warburton River">Warburton River</a> systems in <a href="/wiki/Central_Queensland" title="Central Queensland">Central</a>/western <a href="/wiki/South_West_Queensland" title="South West Queensland">South West Queensland</a> and eastern <a href="/wiki/Far_North_(South_Australia)" title="Far North (South Australia)">Far North</a> of South Australia) drain southwestwards into the <a href="/wiki/Endorheic_lake" title="Endorheic lake">endorheic</a> <a href="/wiki/Kati_Thanda%E2%80%93Lake_Eyre" class="mw-redirect" title="Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre">Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre</a>; the numerous rivers of western <a href="/wiki/Cape_York_Peninsula" title="Cape York Peninsula">Cape York Peninsula</a> in northeastern Australia (<a href="/wiki/North_Queensland" title="North Queensland">North</a>/<a href="/wiki/Far_North_Queensland" title="Far North Queensland">Far North Queensland</a>) drain westwards or northwestwards directly into the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Carpentaria" title="Gulf of Carpentaria">Gulf of Carpentaria</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Climate">Climate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Dividing_Range&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Worldwind-SnowyMountains.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Worldwind-SnowyMountains.jpg/220px-Worldwind-SnowyMountains.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Worldwind-SnowyMountains.jpg/330px-Worldwind-SnowyMountains.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Worldwind-SnowyMountains.jpg/440px-Worldwind-SnowyMountains.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="938" /></a><figcaption>The Monaro Plains (top right) are drier than the verdant western upslopes (bottom left) as they lie in a rain shadow. (View of the <a href="/wiki/Snowy_Mountains" title="Snowy Mountains">Snowy Mountains</a> region)</figcaption></figure> <p>The sharp rise between the coastal lowlands and the eastern uplands has affected <a href="/wiki/Climate_of_Australia" title="Climate of Australia">Australia's climate</a>, mainly due to <a href="/wiki/Precipitation_(meteorology)#Orographic_effects" class="mw-redirect" title="Precipitation (meteorology)">orographic precipitation</a>, and these areas of highest relief have revealed an impressive gorge country.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Areas to the east of the mountain range in southern NSW usually experience a <a href="/wiki/F%C3%B6hn_effect" class="mw-redirect" title="Föhn effect">Föhn effect</a>, which is a <a href="/wiki/Australian_foehn_winds" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian foehn winds">dry wind originating from the Great Dividing Range</a> that abruptly raises the air temperature in the lee of that mountain range and reduces atmospheric moisture.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This dry wind, which elevates <a href="/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia" title="Bushfires in Australia">fire danger</a> in the warm months, occurs because of the partial <a href="/wiki/Orographic" class="mw-redirect" title="Orographic">orographic</a> obstruction of relatively damp low-level air and the subsiding of drier upper-level air in <a href="/wiki/Leeward" class="mw-redirect" title="Leeward">leeward</a> of the mountains. The drier air is then heated more because of the <a href="/wiki/Adiabatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Adiabatic">adiabatic</a> compression as it comes down the lee slopes, forming a <a href="/wiki/Rain_shadow" title="Rain shadow">rain shadow</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the cool season, the Great Dividing Range would shield much of the southeast (i.e. <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_Coast_(New_South_Wales)" title="Central Coast (New South Wales)">Central Coast</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hunter_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Hunter Valley">Hunter Valley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illawarra" title="Illawarra">Illawarra</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Capital_Territory" title="Australian Capital Territory">ACT</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Monaro_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Monaro region">Monaro</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Coast_(New_South_Wales)" title="South Coast (New South Wales)">South Coast</a>) from south-westerly <a href="/wiki/Cold_fronts" class="mw-redirect" title="Cold fronts">cold fronts</a> that originate from the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Ocean" title="Southern Ocean">Southern Ocean</a>, which bring chilling rains, <a href="/wiki/Rain_and_snow_mixed" title="Rain and snow mixed">sleet</a> and snow to the <a href="/wiki/Upwind" class="mw-redirect" title="Upwind">upwind</a> side of the ranges, such as on the western <a href="/wiki/Central_Tablelands" title="Central Tablelands">Central Tablelands</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_West_Slopes" class="mw-redirect" title="South West Slopes">South West Slopes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Snowy_Mountains" title="Snowy Mountains">Snowy Mountains</a> regions – all which have relatively wetter winters.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upwind locations include <a href="/wiki/Crookwell,_New_South_Wales" title="Crookwell, New South Wales">Crookwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Batlow" class="mw-redirect" title="Batlow">Batlow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tumut" title="Tumut">Tumut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corryong" title="Corryong">Corryong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bright,_Victoria" title="Bright, Victoria">Bright</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beechworth,_Victoria" class="mw-redirect" title="Beechworth, Victoria">Beechworth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eildon,_Victoria" title="Eildon, Victoria">Eildon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tolmie,_Victoria" title="Tolmie, Victoria">Tolmie</a> and those in <a href="/wiki/West_Gippsland" title="West Gippsland">West Gippsland</a> (namely the <a href="/wiki/Latrobe_Valley" title="Latrobe Valley">Latrobe Valley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wilsons_Promontory" title="Wilsons Promontory">Wilsons Promontory</a>). Whereas on the <a href="/wiki/Downwind" class="mw-redirect" title="Downwind">downwind</a> (eastern) slopes, <a href="/wiki/Cooma" title="Cooma">Cooma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Omeo" title="Omeo">Omeo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Goulburn,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Goulburn, New South Wales">Goulburn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bowral,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Bowral, New South Wales">Bowral</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bombala,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombala, New South Wales">Bombala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nimmitabel" title="Nimmitabel">Nimmitabel</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Canberra" title="Canberra">Canberra</a>, are warmer and drier relative to altitude.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Moreover, <a href="/wiki/Oberon,_New_South_Wales" title="Oberon, New South Wales">Oberon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shooters_Hill_(New_South_Wales)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shooters Hill (New South Wales)">Shooters Hill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sunny_Corner,_New_South_Wales" title="Sunny Corner, New South Wales">Sunny Corner</a> are on the crest of the ranges and thus exposed from all directions, hence their evenly spread rainfall. The main ski resorts in New South Wales, such as <a href="/wiki/Thredbo" class="mw-redirect" title="Thredbo">Thredbo Village</a>, <a href="/wiki/Perisher_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Perisher Valley">Perisher</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Pass" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlotte Pass">Charlotte Pass</a>, lie transitionally between the leeward and windward side (the former town being more leeward and the latter more windward). Although they receive substantial precipitation from over the crest of the ranges, they lack the persistent cloud cover which characterises truly windward locations on the western face, which are; <a href="/wiki/Cabramurra" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabramurra">Cabramurra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kiandra" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiandra">Kiandra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mount_Buller" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Buller">Mount Buller</a>, <a href="/wiki/Falls_Creek_Alpine_Resort" title="Falls Creek Alpine Resort">Falls Creek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mount_Hotham" title="Mount Hotham">Mount Hotham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mount_Buffalo" title="Mount Buffalo">Mount Buffalo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mount_Baw_Baw" title="Mount Baw Baw">Mount Baw Baw</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Dividing_Range&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GreatDividingRangeSign.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/GreatDividingRangeSign.jpg/170px-GreatDividingRangeSign.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/GreatDividingRangeSign.jpg/255px-GreatDividingRangeSign.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/GreatDividingRangeSign.jpg/340px-GreatDividingRangeSign.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1420" data-file-height="1936" /></a><figcaption>Great Dividing Range sign on the <a href="/wiki/Kings_Highway_(Australia)" title="Kings Highway (Australia)">Kings Highway</a> between <a href="/wiki/Braidwood,_New_South_Wales" title="Braidwood, New South Wales">Braidwood</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bungendore,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Bungendore, New South Wales">Bungendore, New South Wales</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Great Dividing Range was formed during the <a href="/wiki/Carboniferous" title="Carboniferous">Carboniferous period</a>—over 300 million years ago—when Australia collided with what are now parts of South America and New Zealand.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The range has experienced significant erosion since. (See <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_Australia" title="Geology of Australia">Geology of Australia</a>.) </p><p>For tens of thousands of years prior to British colonisation the ranges were home to various <a href="/wiki/Aboriginal_Australians" title="Aboriginal Australians">Aboriginal Australian</a> nations and clans. Evidence remains in some places of their traditional way of life including decorated caves, campsites and trails used to travel between the coastal and inland regions. Many descendants of these nations still exist today, and some remain the <a href="/wiki/Traditional_owners" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional owners">traditional owners</a> and custodians of their lands. </p><p>After British colonisation in 1788, the ranges were an obstacle to exploration and settlement by the British settlers. Although not high, parts of the highlands were very rugged. Crossing the <a href="/wiki/Blue_Mountains_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Blue Mountains (Australia)">Blue Mountains</a> was particularly challenging due to the mistaken idea that the creeks should be followed rather than the ridges, and almost impenetrable, labyrinthine, sandstone mountains.<sup id="cite_ref-cgr_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cgr-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Blue Mountains actually lie to the east of the watershed that divides the <a href="/wiki/Hawkesbury_River" title="Hawkesbury River">Hawkesbury</a>–<a href="/wiki/Nepean_River" title="Nepean River">Nepean</a> system and the <a href="/wiki/Murray%E2%80%93Darling_basin" title="Murray–Darling basin">Murray–Darling system</a>, the true Great Dividing Range. The watershed in this area lies to the west of <a href="/wiki/Lithgow,_New_South_Wales" title="Lithgow, New South Wales">Lithgow</a>, passing near the locality of Mt Lambie<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and village of <a href="/wiki/Capertee,_New_South_Wales" title="Capertee, New South Wales">Capertee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There, as in some other places in New South Wales, the Great Divide is only a slight rise in the surrounding topography. </p><p>Knowing that local Aboriginal people had already established routes crossing the range and by making use of Aboriginal walking trails, a usable ridge-top route was finally discovered by Europeans directly westward from Sydney across the Blue Mountains to <a href="/wiki/Bathurst,_New_South_Wales" title="Bathurst, New South Wales">Bathurst</a> by an <a href="/wiki/1813_crossing_of_the_Blue_Mountains" title="1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains">expedition</a> jointly led by <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Blaxland" title="Gregory Blaxland">Gregory Blaxland</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Lawson_(explorer)" title="William Lawson (explorer)">William Lawson</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Wentworth" title="William Wentworth">William Charles Wentworth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ADB-Blaxland_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ADB-Blaxland-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cgr_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cgr-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Towns in the Blue Mountains were later named after each of these men. This was the start of the development of the agricultural districts of inland <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>. A road was built to <a href="/wiki/Blaxland,_New_South_Wales" title="Blaxland, New South Wales">Blaxland</a> by convicts within six months. Easier routes to inland New South Wales were discovered towards <a href="/wiki/Goulburn" title="Goulburn">Goulburn</a> to the southwest, and westwards from <a href="/wiki/Newcastle,_New_South_Wales" title="Newcastle, New South Wales">Newcastle</a>. </p><p>Subsequent explorations were made across and around the ranges by <a href="/wiki/Allan_Cunningham_(botanist)" title="Allan Cunningham (botanist)">Allan Cunningham</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Oxley" title="John Oxley">John Oxley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hamilton_Hume" title="Hamilton Hume">Hamilton Hume</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Edmund_Strzelecki" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Edmund Strzelecki">Paul Edmund Strzelecki</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Leichhardt" title="Ludwig Leichhardt">Ludwig Leichhardt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mitchell_(explorer)" title="Thomas Mitchell (explorer)">Thomas Mitchell</a>. These explorers were mainly concerned with finding and appropriating good agricultural land. </p><p>By the late 1830s, the most fertile rangelands adjacent to the mountain ranges had been explored, appropriated from the traditional inhabitants and some settled. These included the <a href="/wiki/Gippsland" title="Gippsland">Gippsland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Riverina" title="Riverina">Riverina</a> regions in the south, up to the <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Plains" title="Liverpool Plains">Liverpool Plains</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Darling_Downs" title="Darling Downs">Darling Downs</a> in the north. </p><p>Various road and railway routes were subsequently established through many parts of the ranges, although many areas remain remote to this day. For example, in eastern Victoria there is only one major road crossing the highlands from north to south, the <a href="/wiki/Great_Alpine_Road" title="Great Alpine Road">Great Alpine Road</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Natural_components">Natural components</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Dividing_Range&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Natural components"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BrightVictoria2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/BrightVictoria2.jpg/220px-BrightVictoria2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/BrightVictoria2.jpg/330px-BrightVictoria2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/BrightVictoria2.jpg/440px-BrightVictoria2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mount_Feathertop" title="Mount Feathertop">Mt Feathertop</a> viewed from <a href="/wiki/Smoko,_Victoria" title="Smoko, Victoria">Smoko</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Parts of the highlands consisting of relatively flat and, by Australian standards, well-watered land were developed for agricultural and pastoral uses. Such areas include the <a href="/wiki/Atherton_Tableland" title="Atherton Tableland">Atherton Tableland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Darling_Downs" title="Darling Downs">Darling Downs</a> in Queensland, and the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Tablelands" title="Northern Tablelands">Northern Tablelands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southern_Highlands,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Highlands, New South Wales">Southern Highlands</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southern_Tablelands" title="Southern Tablelands">Southern Tablelands</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>. Other parts of the highlands are too rugged for agriculture and have been used for forestry.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Many parts of the highlands which were not developed are now included in <a href="/wiki/National_Parks" class="mw-redirect" title="National Parks">National Parks</a>. </p><p>All of <a href="/wiki/Australia_(continent)" title="Australia (continent)">mainland Australia</a>'s alpine areas, including its highest mountain, <a href="/wiki/Mount_Kosciuszko" title="Mount Kosciuszko">Mount Kosciuszko</a> (2,228 metres or 7,310 feet <a href="/wiki/Australian_Height_Datum" title="Australian Height Datum">AHD</a>), are part of this range, called the <a href="/wiki/Main_Range_(Snowy_Mountains)" title="Main Range (Snowy Mountains)">Main Range</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-goa_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-goa-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The highest areas in southern New South Wales and eastern Victoria are known as the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Alps" title="Australian Alps">Australian Alps</a>. </p><p>The central core of the Great Dividing Range is dotted with hundreds of peaks and is surrounded by many smaller mountain ranges or spurs, <a href="/wiki/Canyon" title="Canyon">canyons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Valley" title="Valley">valleys</a> and plains of regional significance. Some of the major plains include the <a href="/wiki/High_Plains_(Australia)" title="High Plains (Australia)">High Plains</a> of South-Eastern Australia, the Southern Highlands, the <a href="/wiki/Central_Highlands_(Victoria)" title="Central Highlands (Victoria)">Central Highlands</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bogong_High_Plains" title="Bogong High Plains">Bogong High Plains</a> of Victoria. Other tablelands considered part of the Great Dividing Range are the <a href="/wiki/Atherton_Tableland" title="Atherton Tableland">Atherton Tableland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canberra_wine_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Canberra wine region">Canberra wine region</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Tablelands" title="Southern Tablelands">Southern Tablelands</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Dandenong_Ranges" title="Dandenong Ranges">Dandenong Ranges</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barrington_Tops" title="Barrington Tops">Barrington Tops</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bunya_Mountains" title="Bunya Mountains">Bunya Mountains</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blue_Mountains_(New_South_Wales)" title="Blue Mountains (New South Wales)">Blue Mountains</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Range" title="Liverpool Range">Liverpool Range</a>, <a href="/wiki/McPherson_Range" title="McPherson Range">McPherson Ranges</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Moonbi_Range" title="Moonbi Range">Moonbi Range</a> are some of the smaller spurs and ranges that make up the greater dividing range. Other notable ranges and tablelands which form part of the Great Dividing Range include the <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Range" title="Liverpool Range">Liverpool Range</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal_Range" title="Mount Royal Range">Mount Royal Range</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Monaro,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Monaro, New South Wales">Monaro District</a>. Whilst some of the peaks of the highlands reach respectable heights of a little over 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), the age of the range and its erosion mean that most of the mountains are not very steep, and virtually all peaks can be reached without mountaineering equipment. </p><p>In some areas, such as the <a href="/wiki/Snowy_Mountains" title="Snowy Mountains">Snowy Mountains</a>, <a href="/wiki/Victorian_Alps" title="Victorian Alps">Victorian Alps</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Scenic_Rim" title="Scenic Rim">Scenic Rim</a> and the eastern escarpments of the <a href="/wiki/New_England_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="New England (Australia)">New England</a> region, the highlands form a significant barrier. The eastern escarpment is the site of many spectacular waterfalls which were formed by rivers plunging off the tablelands. In other areas the slopes are gentle and in places the range is barely perceptible.<sup id="cite_ref-Shaw_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shaw-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Well known passes on the range include <a href="/w/index.php?title=Coxs_Gap&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Coxs Gap (page does not exist)">Coxs Gap</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cunninghams_Gap" title="Cunninghams Gap">Cunninghams Gap</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dead_Horse_Gap&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dead Horse Gap (page does not exist)">Dead Horse Gap</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nowlands_Gap" title="Nowlands Gap">Nowlands Gap</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Spicers_Gap" title="Spicers Gap">Spicers Gap</a>. </p><p>Major cities located on the upland areas of the range include <a href="/wiki/Canberra" title="Canberra">Canberra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toowoomba" title="Toowoomba">Toowoomba</a> and the outer suburbs of <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brisbane" title="Brisbane">Brisbane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast,_Queensland" title="Gold Coast, Queensland">Gold Coast</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cairns,_Queensland" class="mw-redirect" title="Cairns, Queensland">Cairns</a> in north Queensland. Many towns and cities are located on the range, and also in lowland areas and foothills adjacent to the highlands. There is a strong natural history and cultural attachment to the Dividing Range region in towns and on many, sometimes remote, landholdings. Some of the towns/cities located on or near the range include: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canberra" title="Canberra">Canberra</a> - ACT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albury" title="Albury">Albury</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queanbeyan" title="Queanbeyan">Queanbeyan</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goulburn" title="Goulburn">Goulburn</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cooma" title="Cooma">Cooma</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jindabyne" class="mw-redirect" title="Jindabyne">Jindabyne</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katoomba,_New_South_Wales" title="Katoomba, New South Wales">Katoomba</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithgow,_New_South_Wales" title="Lithgow, New South Wales">Lithgow</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oberon,_New_South_Wales" title="Oberon, New South Wales">Oberon</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowral" title="Bowral">Bowral</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yass,_New_South_Wales" title="Yass, New South Wales">Yass</a> - NSW</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crookwell" class="mw-redirect" title="Crookwell">Crookwell</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cowra" title="Cowra">Cowra</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young,_New_South_Wales" title="Young, New South Wales">Young</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bathurst,_New_South_Wales" title="Bathurst, New South Wales">Bathurst</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange,_New_South_Wales" title="Orange, New South Wales">Orange</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wellington,_New_South_Wales" title="Wellington, New South Wales">Wellington</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blayney,_New_South_Wales" title="Blayney, New South Wales">Blayney</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mudgee" title="Mudgee">Mudgee</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cessnock,_New_South_Wales" title="Cessnock, New South Wales">Cessnock</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wauchope,_New_South_Wales" title="Wauchope, New South Wales">Wauchope</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casino,_New_South_Wales" title="Casino, New South Wales">Casino</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grafton,_New_South_Wales" title="Grafton, New South Wales">Grafton</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverell" title="Inverell">Inverell</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glen_Innes,_New_South_Wales" title="Glen Innes, New South Wales">Glen Innes</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunnedah" title="Gunnedah">Gunnedah</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Singleton,_New_South_Wales" title="Singleton, New South Wales">Singleton</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armidale" title="Armidale">Armidale</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamworth,_New_South_Wales" title="Tamworth, New South Wales">Tamworth</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narrabri" title="Narrabri">Narrabri</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coonabarabran" title="Coonabarabran">Coonabarabran</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scone,_New_South_Wales" title="Scone, New South Wales">Scone</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloucester,_New_South_Wales" title="Gloucester, New South Wales">Gloucester</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorrigo,_New_South_Wales" title="Dorrigo, New South Wales">Dorrigo</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walcha,_New_South_Wales" title="Walcha, New South Wales">Walcha</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guyra" class="mw-redirect" title="Guyra">Guyra</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenterfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Tenterfield">Tenterfield</a> - NSW</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roma,_Queensland" title="Roma, Queensland">Roma</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gatton,_Queensland" title="Gatton, Queensland">Gatton</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalby,_Queensland" title="Dalby, Queensland">Dalby</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goondiwindi" title="Goondiwindi">Goondiwindi</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beaudesert,_Queensland" title="Beaudesert, Queensland">Beaudesert</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toowoomba" title="Toowoomba">Toowoomba</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pittsworth,_Queensland" title="Pittsworth, Queensland">Pittsworth</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanthorpe" class="mw-redirect" title="Stanthorpe">Stanthorpe</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warwick,_Queensland" title="Warwick, Queensland">Warwick</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingaroy" title="Kingaroy">Kingaroy</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biloela" title="Biloela">Biloela</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emerald,_Queensland" title="Emerald, Queensland">Emerald</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moranbah" title="Moranbah">Moranbah</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackwater,_Queensland" title="Blackwater, Queensland">Blackwater</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clermont,_Queensland" title="Clermont, Queensland">Clermont</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charters_Towers" title="Charters Towers">Charters Towers</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atherton,_Queensland" title="Atherton, Queensland">Atherton</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mareeba" title="Mareeba">Mareeba</a> - Qld</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omeo" title="Omeo">Omeo</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Healesville" title="Healesville">Healesville</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gisborne,_Victoria" title="Gisborne, Victoria">Gisborne</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballarat" title="Ballarat">Ballarat</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beaufort,_Victoria" title="Beaufort, Victoria">Beaufort</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bendigo" title="Bendigo">Bendigo</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ararat,_Victoria" title="Ararat, Victoria">Ararat</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heathcote,_Victoria" title="Heathcote, Victoria">Heathcote</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stawell,_Victoria" title="Stawell, Victoria">Stawell</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seymour,_Victoria" title="Seymour, Victoria">Seymour</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benalla" title="Benalla">Benalla</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castlemaine,_Victoria" title="Castlemaine, Victoria">Castlemaine</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilmore,_Victoria" title="Kilmore, Victoria">Kilmore</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyneton" title="Kyneton">Kyneton</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maryborough,_Victoria" title="Maryborough, Victoria">Maryborough</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shepparton" title="Shepparton">Shepparton</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallan" title="Wallan">Wallan</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wodonga" title="Wodonga">Wodonga</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wangaratta" title="Wangaratta">Wangaratta</a> - Vic</li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Water_catchments">Water catchments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Dividing_Range&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Water catchments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dangar_Falls_Dorrigo_(1).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Dangar_Falls_Dorrigo_%281%29.JPG/220px-Dangar_Falls_Dorrigo_%281%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Dangar_Falls_Dorrigo_%281%29.JPG/330px-Dangar_Falls_Dorrigo_%281%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Dangar_Falls_Dorrigo_%281%29.JPG/440px-Dangar_Falls_Dorrigo_%281%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Some of the most spectacular waterfalls in Australia, such as Dangar Falls at <a href="/wiki/Dorrigo,_New_South_Wales" title="Dorrigo, New South Wales">Dorrigo, New South Wales</a>, are located along the Great Dividing Range.</figcaption></figure> <p>The lower reaches are used for forestry, an activity that causes friction with conservationists. The range is also the source of virtually all of eastern Australia's water supply, both through runoff caught in dams, and throughout much of Queensland, through the <a href="/wiki/Great_Artesian_Basin" title="Great Artesian Basin">Great Artesian Basin</a>. </p><p>Valleys along the chain of mountains have yielded a water source for important reservoirs and water supply projects such as the <a href="/wiki/Upper_Nepean_Scheme" title="Upper Nepean Scheme">Upper Nepean Scheme</a>, <a href="/wiki/Snowy_Mountains_Scheme" title="Snowy Mountains Scheme">Snowy Mountains Scheme</a> and <a href="/wiki/Warragamba_Dam" title="Warragamba Dam">Warragamba Dam</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Bradfield_Scheme" title="Bradfield Scheme">Bradfield Scheme</a> has been mooted as a way to transport water from the <a href="/wiki/Wet_Tropics_of_Queensland" title="Wet Tropics of Queensland">Wet Tropics of Queensland</a> in the coastal northeast of <a href="/wiki/Far_North_Queensland" title="Far North Queensland">Far North Queensland</a> via a series of <a href="/wiki/Dams" class="mw-redirect" title="Dams">Dams</a> & <a href="/wiki/Tunnel" title="Tunnel">Tunnels</a>, southwest to inland dryer regions, including a tunnel through the Great Dividing Range into the <a href="/wiki/Flinders_River" title="Flinders River">Flinders River</a> then a tunnel into the Torrens Creek in the <a href="/wiki/White_Mountains_National_Park" title="White Mountains National Park">White Mountains National Park</a> then flows south into <a href="/wiki/Thomson_River_(Queensland)" title="Thomson River (Queensland)">Thompson River</a> / <a href="/wiki/Cooper_Creek" title="Cooper Creek">Cooper Creek</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/Eyre_Basin" class="mw-redirect" title="Eyre Basin">Eyre Basin</a>. Many other variations have been proposed. </p><p>The Great Dividing Range creates the <a href="/wiki/Drainage_basin" title="Drainage basin">drainage basins</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Australian_south-east_coast_drainage_division" title="Australian south-east coast drainage division">Australian south-east coast drainage division</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Australian_north-east_coast_drainage_division" title="Australian north-east coast drainage division">Australian north-east coast drainage division</a>, whose water flows to <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="East Coast of Australia">the east coast</a> and into the Pacific Ocean, <a href="/wiki/Tasman_Sea" title="Tasman Sea">Tasman Sea</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bass_Strait" title="Bass Strait">Bass Strait</a> with the westerly <a href="/wiki/Murray%E2%80%93Darling_basin" title="Murray–Darling basin">Murray–Darling basin</a> which flow inland, away from the coast into the interior plains. </p><p>Some of the rivers which flow west of the ranges includes the <a href="/wiki/Condamine_River" title="Condamine River">Condamine River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flinders_River" title="Flinders River">Flinders River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herbert_River" title="Herbert River">Herbert River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lachlan_River" title="Lachlan River">Lachlan River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Macdonald_River_(Bendemeer)" title="Macdonald River (Bendemeer)">Macdonald River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Macintyre_River" title="Macintyre River">Macintyre River</a> and <a href="/wiki/Namoi_River" title="Namoi River">Namoi River</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AustraliDotGovDotAu_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AustraliDotGovDotAu-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rivers that flow north into the Murray–Darling Basin from Victoria include the <a href="/wiki/Goulburn_River" title="Goulburn River">Goulburn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mitta_Mitta_River" title="Mitta Mitta River">Mitta Mitta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kiewa_River" title="Kiewa River">Kiewa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ovens_River" title="Ovens River">Ovens</a>, <a href="/wiki/King_River_(Victoria)" title="King River (Victoria)">King</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loddon_River" title="Loddon River">Loddon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Campaspe_River" title="Campaspe River">Campaspe</a> rivers. Rivers that flow east into the Pacific Ocean include the <a href="/wiki/Annan_River" title="Annan River">Annan River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barron_River_(Queensland)" title="Barron River (Queensland)">Barron River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brisbane_River" title="Brisbane River">Brisbane River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burdekin_River" title="Burdekin River">Burdekin River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burnett_River" title="Burnett River">Burnett River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clarence_River_(New_South_Wales)" title="Clarence River (New South Wales)">Clarence River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daintree_River" title="Daintree River">Daintree River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_River_(Queensland)" title="Fitzroy River (Queensland)">Fitzroy River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hastings_River" title="Hastings River">Hastings River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hawkesbury_River" title="Hawkesbury River">Hawkesbury River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hunter_River_(New_South_Wales)" title="Hunter River (New South Wales)">Hunter River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karuah_River" title="Karuah River">Karuah River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Macleay_River" title="Macleay River">Macleay River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary_River_(Queensland)" title="Mary River (Queensland)">Mary River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pascoe_River" title="Pascoe River">Pascoe River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richmond_River" title="Richmond River">Richmond River</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Shoalhaven_River" title="Shoalhaven River">Shoalhaven River</a>. Those that flow south, primarily through Victoria, include the <a href="/wiki/Snowy_River" title="Snowy River">Snowy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cann_River" title="Cann River">Cann</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tambo_River_(Victoria)" title="Tambo River (Victoria)">Tambo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mitchell_River_(Victoria)" title="Mitchell River (Victoria)">Mitchell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latrobe_River" title="Latrobe River">Latrobe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomson_River_(Victoria)" title="Thomson River (Victoria)">Thomson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yarra_River" title="Yarra River">Yarra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Werribee_River" title="Werribee River">Werribee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hopkins_River" title="Hopkins River">Hopkins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Glenelg_River_(Victoria)" title="Glenelg River (Victoria)">Glenelg</a> rivers.<sup id="cite_ref-Shaw_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shaw-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Dividing_Range&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At some high hill passes the range provides cool sites appropriate for <a href="/wiki/Vineyard" title="Vineyard">vineyards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nwa_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nwa-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Railways">Railways</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Dividing_Range&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Railways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Katoomba_scenic_railway_track_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Katoomba_scenic_railway_track_1.jpg/220px-Katoomba_scenic_railway_track_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Katoomba_scenic_railway_track_1.jpg/330px-Katoomba_scenic_railway_track_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Katoomba_scenic_railway_track_1.jpg/440px-Katoomba_scenic_railway_track_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>A number of scenic railways, such as this one at <a href="/wiki/Scenic_World" title="Scenic World">Scenic World</a>, <a href="/wiki/Katoomba,_New_South_Wales" title="Katoomba, New South Wales">Katoomba</a>, climb various shorter routes along the range</figcaption></figure> <p>The engineers of early rail passages across the Great Dividing Range needed to find low sections of the range to cross, as well as suitable, "low" gradient paths up the mountains on either side. Rail passages include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(Mt_Isa_line)" title="Great Northern Railway (Mt Isa line)">Townsville-Mt Isa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Western_railway_line" title="Central Western railway line">Rockhampton-Winton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Main_Line_railway,_Queensland" title="Main Line railway, Queensland">Brisbane–Toowoomba</a> (1867) (2.0% gradient)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Main_Northern_railway_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Main Northern railway line">Newcastle–Tamworth</a> (c 1870), summit at <a href="/wiki/Ardglen_Tunnel" title="Ardglen Tunnel">Ardglen Tunnel</a> (2073' HASL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandy_Hollow-Gulgong_railway_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Sandy Hollow-Gulgong railway line">Sandy Hollow-Gulgong railway line</a> started in the 1930s to Maryvale (<a href="/wiki/Main_Western_railway_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Main Western railway line">Main Western railway line</a>), completed the 1980s to <a href="/wiki/Gulgong_railway_station" title="Gulgong railway station">Gulgong</a>, summit just west of <a href="/wiki/Ulan,_New_South_Wales" title="Ulan, New South Wales">Ulan</a> - (500M / 1640') The lowest, 4th & last crossing in NSW.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Main_Western_railway_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Main Western railway line">Sydney–Lithgow</a> (1869), crossing the range via the <a href="/wiki/Blue_Mountains_(New_South_Wales)" title="Blue Mountains (New South Wales)">Blue Mountains</a> (summit near <a href="/wiki/Bell_railway_station,_New_South_Wales" title="Bell railway station, New South Wales">Bell</a> 3507' HASL) (3.00% gradient)<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Main_Southern_railway_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Main Southern railway line">Sydney–Goulburn</a> (1869), though the divide is actually a few kilometres further west near the crossing with Parkesbourne Road near <a href="/wiki/Cullerin_railway_station" title="Cullerin railway station">Cullerin</a>. The next 300 km descending to <a href="/wiki/Wagga_Wagga_railway_station" title="Wagga Wagga railway station">Wagga Wagga</a> was originally fast, but regrading in the 1920s introduced many curves.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_East_railway_line" title="North East railway line">Melbourne–Seymour</a>, crossing the range near <a href="/wiki/Heathcote_Junction_railway_station" title="Heathcote Junction railway station">Heathcote Junction</a> (1872) (2.08% gradient)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deniliquin_railway_line" title="Deniliquin railway line">Melbourne–Bendigo</a>, crossing the range near <a href="/wiki/Woodend,_Victoria" title="Woodend, Victoria">Woodend</a> (1862) (1093' HASL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serviceton_railway_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Serviceton railway line">Melbourne–Ararat</a> (1875) via <a href="/wiki/Ballarat" title="Ballarat">Ballarat</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Road_transport">Road transport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Dividing_Range&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Road transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many of Australia's highways such as the <a href="/wiki/Alpine_Way" title="Alpine Way">Alpine Way</a>, <a href="/wiki/Great_Alpine_Road" title="Great Alpine Road">Great Alpine Road</a>, <a href="/wiki/Snowy_Mountains_Highway" title="Snowy Mountains Highway">Snowy Mountains Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hume_Highway" title="Hume Highway">Hume Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illawarra_Highway" title="Illawarra Highway">Illawarra Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Highway,_Victoria" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Highway, Victoria">Northern Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melba_Highway" title="Melba Highway">Melba Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maroondah_Highway" title="Maroondah Highway">Maroondah Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Midland_Highway,_Victoria" class="mw-redirect" title="Midland Highway, Victoria">Midland Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pyrenees_Highway" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyrenees Highway">Pyrenees Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sunraysia_Highway" title="Sunraysia Highway">Sunraysia Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monaro_Highway" title="Monaro Highway">Monaro Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Highway" title="Olympic Highway">Olympic Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newell_Highway" title="Newell Highway">Newell Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lachlan_Valley_Way" title="Lachlan Valley Way">Lachlan Valley Way</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barton_Highway" title="Barton Highway">Barton Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Federal_Highway,_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Highway, Australia">Federal Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kings_Highway,_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings Highway, Australia">Kings Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Highway" title="Great Western Highway">Great Western Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mitchell_Highway" title="Mitchell Highway">Mitchell Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mid-Western_Highway" title="Mid-Western Highway">Mid-Western Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Castlereagh_Highway" title="Castlereagh Highway">Castlereagh Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mulligan_Highway" title="Mulligan Highway">Mulligan Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Capricorn_Highway" title="Capricorn Highway">Capricorn Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cunningham_Highway" title="Cunningham Highway">Cunningham Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gore_Highway" title="Gore Highway">Gore Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flinders_Highway,_Queensland" title="Flinders Highway, Queensland">Flinders Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Highway" title="Gregory Highway">Gregory Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peak_Downs_Highway" title="Peak Downs Highway">Peak Downs Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dawson_Highway" title="Dawson Highway">Dawson Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_England_Highway" title="New England Highway">New England Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Golden_Highway" title="Golden Highway">Golden Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bruxner_Highway" title="Bruxner Highway">Bruxner Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gwydir_Highway" title="Gwydir Highway">Gwydir Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxley_Highway" title="Oxley Highway">Oxley Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warrego_Highway" title="Warrego Highway">Warrego Highway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Summerland_Way" title="Summerland Way">Summerland Way</a>, <a href="/wiki/Waterfall_Way" title="Waterfall Way">Waterfall Way</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thunderbolts_Way" title="Thunderbolts Way">Thunderbolts Way</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Calder_Highway" title="Calder Highway">Calder Highway</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Western_Highway,_Victoria" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Highway, Victoria">Western Highway</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Murray_Valley_Highway" title="Murray Valley Highway">Murray Valley Highway</a> traverse parts of the range. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Protected_areas">Protected areas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Dividing_Range&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Protected areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Much of the range lies within a succession of <a href="/wiki/National_park" title="National park">national parks</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Protected_areas_of_Australia" title="Protected areas of Australia">reserves</a>. Most of the national parks are listed below, and there are almost double that amount of state forests.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1216972533"><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alpine_National_Park" title="Alpine National Park">Alpine National Park</a> – Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annan_River_National_Park" title="Annan River National Park">Annan River National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apudthama_National_Park" title="Apudthama National Park">Apudthama National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bago_Bluff_National_Park" title="Bago Bluff National Park">Bago Bluff National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bald_Rock_National_Park" title="Bald Rock National Park">Bald Rock National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barrington_Tops_National_Park" title="Barrington Tops National Park">Barrington Tops National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baw_Baw_National_Park" title="Baw Baw National Park">Baw Baw National Park</a> – Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellinger_River_National_Park" title="Bellinger River National Park">Bellinger River National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackbraes_National_Park" title="Blackbraes National Park">Blackbraes National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackdown_Tableland_National_Park" title="Blackdown Tableland National Park">Blackdown Tableland National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Mountains_National_Park" title="Blue Mountains National Park">Blue Mountains National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_Ranges_National_Park" title="Border Ranges National Park">Border Ranges National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brindabella_National_Park" title="Brindabella National Park">Brindabella National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brisbane_Ranges_National_Park" title="Brisbane Ranges National Park">Brisbane Ranges National Park</a> – Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budawang_National_Park" title="Budawang National Park">Budawang National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budderoo_National_Park" title="Budderoo National Park">Budderoo National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bunya_Mountains_National_Park" title="Bunya Mountains National Park">Bunya Mountains National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burrowa-Pine_Mountain_National_Park" title="Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park">Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park</a> – Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Melville_National_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Cape Melville National Park">Cape Melville National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carnarvon_National_Park" title="Carnarvon National Park">Carnarvon National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cathedral_Rock_National_Park" title="Cathedral Rock National Park">Cathedral Rock National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conimbla_National_Park" title="Conimbla National Park">Conimbla National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conondale_National_Park" title="Conondale National Park">Conondale National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cottan-Bimbang_National_Park" title="Cottan-Bimbang National Park">Cottan-Bimbang National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cunnawarra_National_Park" title="Cunnawarra National Park">Cunnawarra National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daintree_National_Park" title="Daintree National Park">Daintree National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dandenong_Ranges_National_Park" title="Dandenong Ranges National Park">Dandenong Ranges National Park</a> – Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deua_National_Park" title="Deua National Park">Deua National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dharug_National_Park" title="Dharug National Park">Dharug National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dipperu_National_Park" title="Dipperu National Park">Dipperu National Park</a> - Qld</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Forty_Mile_Scrub_National_Park" title="Forty Mile Scrub National Park">Forty Mile Scrub National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gibraltar_Range_National_Park" title="Gibraltar Range National Park">Gibraltar Range National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girraween_National_Park" title="Girraween National Park">Girraween National Park</a> – Qld/NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girringun_National_Park" title="Girringun National Park">Girringun National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goobang_National_Park" title="Goobang National Park">Goobang National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goulburn_River_National_Park" title="Goulburn River National Park">Goulburn River National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grampians_National_Park" title="Grampians National Park">Grampians National Park</a> – Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Bendigo_National_Park" title="Greater Bendigo National Park">Greater Bendigo National Park</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_River_National_Park" title="Guy Fawkes River National Park">Guy Fawkes River National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hann_Tableland_National_Park" title="Hann Tableland National Park">Hann Tableland National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heathcote-Graytown_National_Park" title="Heathcote-Graytown National Park">Heathcote-Graytown National Park</a>- Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humboldt_National_Park" title="Humboldt National Park">Humboldt National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanangra-Boyd_National_Park" title="Kanangra-Boyd National Park">Kanangra-Boyd National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kara_Kara_National_Park" title="Kara Kara National Park">Kara Kara National Park</a> - Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koreelah_National_Park" title="Koreelah National Park">Koreelah National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosciuszko_National_Park" title="Kosciuszko National Park">Kosciuszko National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kroombit_Tops_National_Park" title="Kroombit Tops National Park">Kroombit Tops National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kulla_National_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Kulla National Park">Kulla National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumbatine_National_Park" title="Kumbatine National Park">Kumbatine National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuranda_National_Park" title="Kuranda National Park">Kuranda National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Eildon_National_Park" title="Lake Eildon National Park">Lake Eildon National Park</a> – Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamington_National_Park" title="Lamington National Park">Lamington National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lockyer_National_Park" title="Lockyer National Park">Lockyer National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macalister_Range_National_Park" title="Macalister Range National Park">Macalister Range National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Main_Range_National_Park" title="Main Range National Park">Main Range National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morton_National_Park" title="Morton National Park">Morton National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Buffalo_National_Park" title="Mount Buffalo National Park">Mount Buffalo National Park</a> – Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Kaputar_National_Park" title="Mount Kaputar National Park">Mount Kaputar National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Lewis_National_Park" title="Mount Lewis National Park">Mount Lewis National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mowbray_National_Park" title="Mowbray National Park">Mowbray National Park</a> – Qld</li></ul> </td> <td class="col-break"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mummel_Gulf_National_Park" title="Mummel Gulf National Park">Mummel Gulf National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Namadgi_National_Park" title="Namadgi National Park">Namadgi National Park</a> – ACT</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nattai_National_Park" title="Nattai National Park">Nattai National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_England_National_Park" title="New England National Park">New England National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nowendoc_National_Park" title="Nowendoc National Park">Nowendoc National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nymboida_National_Park" title="Nymboida National Park">Nymboida National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxley_Wild_Rivers_National_Park" title="Oxley Wild Rivers National Park">Oxley Wild Rivers National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oyala_Thumotang_National_Park" title="Oyala Thumotang National Park">Oyala Thumotang National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paluma_Range_National_Park" title="Paluma Range National Park">Paluma Range National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravensbourne_National_Park" title="Ravensbourne National Park">Ravensbourne National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snowy_River_National_Park" title="Snowy River National Park">Snowy River National Park</a> – Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_East_Forests_National_Park" title="South East Forests National Park">South East Forests National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Springbrook_National_Park" title="Springbrook National Park">Springbrook National Park</a>- Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Starcke_National_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Starcke National Park">Starcke National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sundown_National_Park" title="Sundown National Park">Sundown National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapin_Tops_National_Park" title="Tapin Tops National Park">Tapin Tops National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Towarri_National_Park" title="Towarri National Park">Towarri National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toonumbar_National_Park" title="Toonumbar National Park">Toonumbar National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulidarra_National_Park" title="Ulidarra National Park">Ulidarra National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Undara_Volcanic_National_Park" title="Undara Volcanic National Park">Undara Volcanic National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wadbilliga_National_Park" title="Wadbilliga National Park">Wadbilliga National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warrabah_National_Park" title="Warrabah National Park">Warrabah National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warrumbungle_National_Park" title="Warrumbungle National Park">Warrumbungle National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washpool_National_Park" title="Washpool National Park">Washpool National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werrikimbe_National_Park" title="Werrikimbe National Park">Werrikimbe National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Mountains_National_Park" title="White Mountains National Park">White Mountains National Park</a> – Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willi_Willi_National_Park" title="Willi Willi National Park">Willi Willi National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woko_National_Park" title="Woko National Park">Woko National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wollemi_National_Park" title="Wollemi National Park">Wollemi National Park</a> – NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wollumbin_National_Park" title="Wollumbin National Park">Wollumbin National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woomargama_National_Park" title="Woomargama National Park">Woomargama National Park</a> - NSW</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wooroonooran_National_Park" title="Wooroonooran National Park">Wooroonooran National Park</a> - Qld</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarra_Ranges_National_Park" title="Yarra Ranges National Park">Yarra Ranges National Park</a> – Vic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yengo_National_Park" title="Yengo National Park">Yengo National Park</a> – NSW</li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mt_hotham_alpine_range_scenery.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Mt_hotham_alpine_range_scenery.jpg/590px-Mt_hotham_alpine_range_scenery.jpg" decoding="async" width="590" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Mt_hotham_alpine_range_scenery.jpg/885px-Mt_hotham_alpine_range_scenery.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Mt_hotham_alpine_range_scenery.jpg/1180px-Mt_hotham_alpine_range_scenery.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="1043" /></a><figcaption>The Great Dividing Range, as seen from near <a href="/wiki/Mount_Hotham" title="Mount Hotham">Mount Hotham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mid_North_Coast" title="Mid North Coast">Mid North Coast</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Brothers_(New_South_Wales)" title="Three Brothers (New South Wales)">Middle Brother</a></i> (554 m or 1,818 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Brothers_(New_South_Wales)" title="Three Brothers (New South Wales)">South Brother</a></i> (487 m or 1,598 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Three_Brothers_(New_South_Wales)" title="Three Brothers (New South Wales)">North Brother</a></i> (476 m or 1,562 ft)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Allyn_Range" title="Allyn Range">Allyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barrington_Tops" title="Barrington Tops">Barrington</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal_Range" title="Mount Royal Range">Mount Royal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Brumlow_Tops" class="mw-redirect" title="Brumlow Tops">Brumlow Tops</a></i> (1,586 m or 5,203 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Polblue" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Polblue">Polblue</a></i> (1,575 m or 5,167 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Barrington_Volcano" class="mw-redirect" title="Barrington Volcano">Barrington</a></i> (1,555 m or 5,102 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Careys_Peak" title="Careys Peak">Careys Peak</a></i> (1,544 m or 5,066 ft)</li> <li><i>Eremeren Point</i> (1,537 m or 5,043 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Royal_(New_South_Wales)" title="Mount Royal (New South Wales)">Royal</a></i> (1,185 m or 3,888 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Allyn" title="Mount Allyn">Allyn</a></i> (1,125 m or 3,691 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Cabrebald" title="Mount Cabrebald">Cabrebald</a></i> 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navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>Coricudgy</i> (1,255 m or 4,117 ft)</li> <li><i>unnamed peak</i> (1,189 m or 3,901 ft)</li> <li><i>Pomany</i> (1,109 m or 3,638 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Piddington" title="Mount Piddington">Piddington</a></i> (1,094 m or 3,589 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Boyce" title="Mount Boyce">Boyce</a></i> (1,093 m or 3,586 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_York" title="Mount York">York</a></i> (1,061 m or 3,481 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Victoria,_New_South_Wales" title="Mount Victoria, New South Wales">Victoria</a></i> (1,059 m or 3,474 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Banks" title="Mount Banks">Banks</a></i> (1,049 m or 3,442 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Tomah" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Tomah">Tomah</a></i> (1,016 m or 3,333 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Wilson,_New_South_Wales" title="Mount Wilson, New South Wales">Wilson</a></i> (1,008 m or 3,307 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kings_Tableland" title="Kings Tableland">Kings Tableland</a></i> (1,000 m or 3,281 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Narrow_Neck_Plateau" title="Narrow Neck Plateau">Narrow Neck Plateau</a></i> (1,000 m or 3,281 ft)</li> <li><i>Bell</i> (998 m or 3,274 ft)</li> <li><i>Castle Cliff</i> (986 m or 3,235 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Solitary" title="Mount Solitary">Solitary</a></i> (950 m or 3,117 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Hay_(New_South_Wales)" title="Mount Hay (New South Wales)">Hay</a></i> (944 m or 3,097 ft)</li> <li><i>Podgers</i> (890 m or 2,920 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Irvine,_New_South_Wales" title="Mount Irvine, New South Wales">Irvine</a></i> (850 m or 2,789 ft)</li> <li><i>Debert</i> (840 m or 2,756 ft)</li> <li><i>Camp Cave</i> (800 m or 2,625 ft)</li> <li><i>Warrigal</i> (760 m or 2,493 ft)</li> <li><i>Notts</i> (750 m or 2,461 ft)</li> <li><i>Harris</i> (736 m or 2,415 ft)</li> <li><i>Centre</i> (620 m or 2,034 ft)</li> <li><i>Hall</i> (617 m or 2,024 ft)</li> <li><i>Gibson</i> (608 m or 1,995 ft)</li> <li><i>Scorpion</i> (558 m or 1,831 ft)</li> <li><i>Linda Rock</i> (599 m or 1,965 ft)</li> <li><i>Cookem</i> (569 m or 1,867 ft)</li> <li><i>Gospers</i></li> <li><i>Bedford</i></li> <li><i>Cameron</i></li> <li><i>Coriaday</i></li> <li><i>Erskine</i></li> <li><i>Mistake</i></li> <li><i>Monundilla</i></li> <li><i>Whaite</i></li> <li><i>Wirraba</i></li> <li><i>Pearces</i></li> <li><i>Wedding Cake</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Illawarra_escarpment" title="Illawarra escarpment">Illawarra</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Bells_Hill,_New_South_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Bells Hill, New South Wales">Bells</a></i> (803 m or 2,635 ft)</li> <li><i>Knights Hill</i> (709 m or 2,326 ft)</li> <li><i>Noorinan</i> (663 m or 2,175 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saddleback_Mountain_(New_South_Wales)" title="Saddleback Mountain (New South Wales)">Saddleback</a></i> (600 m or 1,969 ft)</li> <li><i>Wanyambilli Hill</i> (564 m or 1,850 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Kembla" title="Mount Kembla">Kembla</a></i> (534 m or 1,752 ft)</li> <li><i>Burelli</i> (531 m or 1,742 ft)</li> <li><i>Kembla West</i> (512 m or 1,680 ft)</li> <li><i>Brisbane</i> (469 m or 1,539 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Keira" title="Mount Keira">Keira</a></i> (464 m or 1,522 ft)</li> <li><i>Warra</i> (464 m or 1,522 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brokers_Nose" title="Brokers Nose">Brokers Nose</a></i> (440 m or 1,444 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Nebo_(New_South_Wales)" title="Mount Nebo (New South Wales)">Nebo</a></i> (252 m or 827 ft)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Budawang_Range" title="Budawang Range">The Budawangs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>Budawang</i> (1,129 m or 3,704 ft)</li> <li><i>Currockbilly</i> (1,087 m or 3,566 ft)</li> <li><i>Wog Wog</i> (893 m or 2,930 ft)</li> <li><i>Cole</i> (876 m or 2,874 ft)</li> <li><i>Sturgiss</i> (858 m or 2,815 ft)</li> <li><i>Fosters</i> (857 m or 2,812 ft)</li> <li><i>Barneys Hill</i> (855 m or 2,805 ft)</li> <li><i>The Castle</i> (831 m or 2,726 ft)</li> <li><i>Shrouded Gods</i> (809 m or 2,654 ft)</li> <li><i>Donjon</i> (786 m or 2,579 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Clyde_Mountain" title="Clyde Mountain">Clyde</a></i> (781 m or 2,562 ft)</li> <li><i>Quiltys</i> (775 m or 2,543 ft)</li> <li><i>Wirritin</i> (674 m or 2,211 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pigeon_House_Mountain" title="Pigeon House Mountain">Pigeon House</a></i> / <i><a href="/wiki/Pigeon_House_Mountain" title="Pigeon House Mountain">Didthul</a></i> (720 m or 2,362 ft)</li> <li><i>Bushwalker</i> (640 m or 2,100 ft)</li> <li><i>Byangee</i> (500 m or 1,640 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Coolangatta_Mountain" title="Coolangatta Mountain">Coolangatta</a></i></li> <li><i>Tarn</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Great Dividing Range</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Tweed_Range" title="Tweed Range">Tweed</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Warning" title="Mount Warning">Warning</a></i> (1,156 m or 3,793 ft)</li> <li><i>Bar</i> (1,130 m or 3,707 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Glenugie_Peak" title="Glenugie Peak">Glenugie</a></i> (316 m or 1,037 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Chincogan" title="Mount Chincogan">Chincogan</a></i> (260 m or 853 ft)</li> <li><i>Gladstone</i></li> <li><i>Goobergooberyam</i></li> <li><i>Moombil</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/McPherson_Range" title="McPherson Range">McPherson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nightcap_Range" title="Nightcap Range">Nightcap</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Barney" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Barney">Barney</a></i> (1,359 m or 4,459 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Burrell" title="Mount Burrell">Burrell</a></i> 933 m or 3,061 ft)</li> <li><i>Neville</i> (919 m or 3,015 ft)</li> <li><i>Nardi</i> (812 m or 2,664 ft)</li> <li><i>Matheson</i> (804 m or 2,638 ft)</li> <li><i>Peates</i> (604 m or 1,982 ft)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mid_North_Coast" title="Mid North Coast">Mid North Coast</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Banda_Banda" title="Mount Banda Banda">Banda Banda</a></i> (1,258 m or 4,127 ft)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nandewar_Range" title="Nandewar Range">Nandewar</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Kaputar" title="Mount Kaputar">Kaputar</a></i> (1,489 m or 4,885 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Dowe" title="Mount Dowe">Dowe</a></i> (1,457 m or 4,780 ft)</li> <li><i>Mount Coryah</i> (1,409 m or 4,623 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Lindesay_(New_South_Wales)" title="Mount Lindesay (New South Wales)">Lindesay</a></i> (1,373 m or 4,505 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Grattai_Mountain" title="Grattai Mountain">Grattai</a></i> (1,301 m or 4,268 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bushy_Mountain" title="Bushy Mountain">Bushy</a></i> (1,260 m or 4,134 ft)</li> <li><i>Round</i> (1,250 m or 4,101 ft)</li> <li><i>Yulludunida</i> (1,225 m or 4,019 ft)</li> <li><i>Castle Top</i> (1,120 m or 3,675 ft)</li> <li><i>Gins</i> (1,120 m or 3,675 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Ningadhun" title="Mount Ningadhun">Ningadhun</a></i> (1,013 m or 3,323 ft)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Liverpool_Range" title="Liverpool Range">Liverpool</a> and <a href="/wiki/Watagan_Mountains" title="Watagan Mountains">Watagan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>unnamed</i> (1,300 m or 4,265 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pandoras_Pass" title="Pandoras Pass">Pandoras Pass</a></i> (788 m or 2,585 ft)</li> <li><i>Warrawolong</i> (641 m or 2,103 ft)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/New_England_(New_South_Wales)" title="New England (New South Wales)">New England</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moonbi_Range" title="Moonbi Range">Moonbi</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Round_Mountain_(Northern_Tablelands)" title="Round Mountain (Northern Tablelands)">Round</a></i> (1,585 m or 5,200 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Point_Lookout_(New_South_Wales)" title="Point Lookout (New South Wales)">Point Lookout</a></i> (1,564 m or 5,131 ft)</li> <li><i>Ben Lomond</i> (1,512 m or 4,961 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Grundy_Mountain" title="Grundy Mountain">Grundy</a></i> (1,463 m or 4,800 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Barren_Mountain" title="Barren Mountain">Barren</a></i> (1,437 m or 4,715 ft)</li> <li><i>Hyland</i> (1,434 m or 4,705 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Duval_(New_South_Wales)" title="Mount Duval (New South Wales)">Duval</a></i> (1,393 m or 4,570 ft)</li> <li><i>Black Jack</i> (1,300 m or 4,265 ft)</li> <li><i>Gulligal</i> (1,230 m or 4,035 ft)</li> <li><i>Oaky</i> (1,070 m or 3,510 ft)</li> <li><i>Cooee</i> (1,020 m or 3,346 ft)</li> <li><i>Flaggy</i> (984 m or 3,228 ft)</li> <li><i>Big Billy</i> (884 m or 2,900 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dorrigo_Mountain" title="Dorrigo Mountain">Dorrigo</a></i> (762 m or 2,500 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Burning_Mountain" title="Burning Mountain">Burning</a></i> (520 m or 1,706 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Yarrowyck" title="Mount Yarrowyck">Yarrowyck</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Central_Tablelands" title="Central Tablelands">Central Tablelands</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Canobolas" title="Mount Canobolas">Canobolas</a></i> (1,395 m or 4,577 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shooters_Hill,_New_South_Wales" title="Shooters Hill, New South Wales">Shooters Hill</a></i> (1,394 m or 4,573 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Bindo" title="Mount Bindo">Bindo</a></i> (1,363 m or 4,472 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Trickett" title="Mount Trickett">Trickett</a></i> (1,362 m or 4,469 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Blaxland_(New_South_Wales)" title="Mount Blaxland (New South Wales)">Blaxland</a></i> (901 m or 2,956 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Hopeless_(New_South_Wales)" title="Mount Hopeless (New South Wales)">Hopeless</a></i> (1,056 m or 3,465 ft)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Brindabella_Range" title="Brindabella Range">The Brindabellas</a> and Scabby</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Bimberi_Peak" title="Bimberi Peak">Bimberi</a></i> (1,913 m or 6,276 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Gingera" title="Mount Gingera">Gingera</a></i> (1,857 m or 6,093 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Kelly" title="Mount Kelly">Kelly</a></i> (1,829 m or 6,001 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Ginini" title="Mount Ginini">Ginini</a></i> (1,762 m or 5,781 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Franklin_(Australian_Capital_Territory)" title="Mount Franklin (Australian Capital Territory)">Franklin</a></i> (1,646 m or 5,400 ft)</li> <li><i>Aggie</i> (1,421 m or 4,662 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Coree" title="Mount Coree">Coree</a></i> (1,421 m or 4,662 ft)</li> <li><i>Bramina</i> (1,392 m or 4,567 ft)</li> <li><i>Bulls Head</i> (1,375 m or 4,511 ft)</li> <li><i>Black Bottle</i> (1,356 m or 4,449 ft)</li> <li><i>Lickhole</i> (1,188 m or 3,898 ft)</li> <li><i>Brindabella</i> (972 m or 3,189 ft)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Monaro_(New_South_Wales)" title="Monaro (New South Wales)">Monaro</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Big_Badja_Hill" title="Big Badja Hill">Big Badja</a></i> (1,363 m or 4,472 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brown_Mountain_(New_South_Wales)" title="Brown Mountain (New South Wales)">Brown</a></i> (1,243 m or 4,078 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gibraltar_Hill_(Bungendore,_New_South_Wales)" title="Gibraltar Hill (Bungendore, New South Wales)">Gibraltar (Bungendore)</a></i> (887 m or 2,910 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gibraltar_Hill_(Williamsdale,_New_South_Wales)" title="Gibraltar Hill (Williamsdale, New South Wales)">Gibraltar Hill</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Snowy_Mountains" title="Snowy Mountains">Snowies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Main_Range_(Snowy_Mountains)" title="Main Range (Snowy Mountains)">Main</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Mount_Kosciuszko" title="Mount Kosciuszko">Kosciuszko</a></b></i> <i><b>(2,228 m or 7,310 ft)</b></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Townsend_(Snowy_Mountains)" title="Mount Townsend (Snowy Mountains)">Townsend</a></i> (2,209 m or 7,247 ft)</li> <li><i>unnamed peak on Etheridge Ridge</i> (2,180 m or 7,152 ft)</li> <li><i>Alice Rawson Peak</i> (2,160 m or 7,087 ft)</li> <li><i>Byatts Camp</i> (2,159 m or 7,083 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Carruthers_Peak" title="Carruthers Peak">Carruthers</a></i> (2,145 m or 7,037 ft)</li> <li><i>Abbott Peak</i> (2,145 m or 7,037 ft)</li> <li><i>Mount Northcote</i> (2,131 m or 6,991 ft)</li> <li><i>Muellers Peak</i> (2,120 m or 6,955 ft)</li> <li><i>Clark</i> (2,100 m or 6,890 ft)</li> <li><i>Lee</i> (2,100 m or 6,890 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gungartan" title="Gungartan">Gungartan</a></i> (2,068 m or 6,785 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Tate_(New_South_Wales)" title="Mount Tate (New South Wales)">Tate</a></i> (2,068 m or 6,785 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Jagungal" title="Mount Jagungal">Jagungal</a></i> (2,061 m or 6,762 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Perisher_Valley,_New_South_Wales" title="Perisher Valley, New South Wales">Perisher</a></i> (2,054 m or 6,739 ft)</li> <li><i>Stilwell</i> (2,040 m or 6,693 ft)</li> <li><i>Watsons Crags</i> (2,020 m or 6,627 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Perisher_Valley,_New_South_Wales" title="Perisher Valley, New South Wales">Back Perisher</a></i> (2,014 m or 6,608 ft)</li> <li><i>Anton</i> (2,000 m or 6,562 ft)</li> <li><i>Anderson</i> (1,997 m or 6,552 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blue_Cow_Mountain" title="Blue Cow Mountain">Blue Cow</a></i> (1,994 m or 6,542 ft)</li> <li><i>The Granite Peaks</i> (1,980 m or 6,496 ft)</li> <li><i>Dicky Cooper Bogong</i> (1,980 m or 6,496 ft)</li> <li><i>Gills Knobs</i> (1,940 m or 6,365 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Guthega,_New_South_Wales" title="Guthega, New South Wales">Guthega Peak</a></i> (1,924 m or 6,312 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blue_Cow_Mountain" title="Blue Cow Mountain">Blue Calf</a></i> (1,905 m or 6,250 ft)</li> <li><i>Sentinel</i> (1,900 m or 6,234 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Smiggin_Holes,_New_South_Wales" title="Smiggin Holes, New South Wales">Mount Piper</a></i> (1,830 m or 6,004 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Round_Mountain_(Snowy_Mountains)" title="Round Mountain (Snowy Mountains)">Round</a></i> (1,756 m or 5,761 ft)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ramshead_Range" title="Ramshead Range">Ramshead</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Rams_Head" title="Rams Head">Rams Head</a></i> (2,190 m or 7,185 ft)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Twynam" title="Mount Twynam">Twynam</a></i> (2,178 m or 7,146 ft)</li> <li><i>Rams Head North</i> (2,177 m or 7,142 ft)</li> <li><i>Little Twynam</i> (2,120 m or 6,955 ft)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other mountains in the GDR</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Yengo" title="Mount Yengo">Yengo</a></i> (668 m or 2,192 ft)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Inland mountain ranges</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Barrier_Ranges" title="Barrier Ranges">Barrier</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>Lewis Peak</i> (297 m or 974 ft)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Warrumbungles" title="Warrumbungles">Warrumbungles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>Exmouth</i> (1,206 m or 3,957 ft)</li> <li><i><a 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