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	Owen Stanley Range - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Owen Stanley Range is the south-eastern part of the central mountain-chain in Papua New Guinea.
		Strictly, the eastern extremity of the range is Mount Victoria (13,363 feet), which was climbed by Sir William Macgregor in 1888, and it extends as far west as Mounts Thynne and Lilley.
		The range is flanked by broken and difficult country, particularly on the south-western side.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Owen_Stanley_Ranges (284 words)

	:: APMN \| publications - Vol. 5, No. 2 ::
		Along the northern coast are a chain of lower ranges that trend parallel to the main range.
		The Macdonnell Ranges in the north and Musgrave Ranges in the south enclose the dry lake of Amadeus.
		Maori legends describe the ranges as a great fish brought to the surface by a magic fish-hook; great swellings arose where it was clubbed by the gods who caught it, and the active volcanoes are the death twitches of the giant.
	www.mtnforum.org /apmn/new_website/publications/5_2_b.php (2288 words)

	Owen Stanley Range -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The range rises abruptly from the coastal plain to a height of 9,000 feet (2,750 m) and extends for 200 miles (300 km).
		The highest mountain range within the Arctic Circle is the Brooks Range, the northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains in northern Alaska.
		The mountains stretch from the Aleutian Range in south-central Alaska to the Yukon boundary in southern Alaska.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9057797?tocId=9057797 (869 words)

	MEMORIAL ROSE GARDEN
		The first was by landing on the north coast of Papua and advancing over the Owen Stanley Ranges.
		During the four months of fighting in the Owen Stanley Ranges, from 22 July to 16 November, the Australian infantry lost 607 killed and 1,015 wounded.
		At the time of the operations the accounts in the newspaper referred merely to the Owen Stanley Ranges, when describing the fighting on the jungle foot-pad that wound its way from Ilolo in the southern foothills over the towering mountains and then down to Kokoda in the northern foothills.
	www.kokodawalkway.com.au /stations/memorial_rose_garden.html (800 words)

	The History of Kokoda Track / Trail
		It was on July 21, 1942, that Japanese troops landed on the northern coast of then New Guinea and unexpectedly began to march over the Owen Stanley Ranges with the intent of capturing Port Moresby.
		On the Kododa Trail the Australian 7th Division resisted the Japanese General Horii's overland attempt to capture Port Moresby, and the advance was halted within 30 miles of the city.
		Kokoda is a small plateau on the north-east slopes of the Owen Stanley Range and possessed a small airstrip the retention of which, for at least as long as it would take Australia to fly in supplies and reinforcements, was of great importance.
	www.kokodatrail.com.au /history.html (1570 words)

	Kokoda Track Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought from July 1942 to January 1943 between Japanese and Australian forces in the Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea.
		The Kokoda Track itself is single-file track starting just outside Port Moresby on the Coral Sea and (depending on definition) runs 60–100 kilometres through the Owen Stanley Ranges to Kokoda and the coastal lowlands beyond by the Solomon Sea.
		The track crosses some of the most rugged and isolated terrain in the world, reaches 2,250 metres at Mount Bellamy, and combines hot humid days with intensely cold nights, torrential rainfall and endemic tropical diseases such as malaria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kokoda_Track_Campaign (3238 words)

	PAPUA NEW GUINEA ORCHID NEWS
		The main range passes southeasterly through Papua where it becomes lower than the western portion and is known as the Owen Stanley Range.
		The landforms are similar to the Owen Stanley ranges and dissected by erosion that has produced steep relatively uniform slopes and narrow crests.
		the Owen Stanley ranges) and in Irian Jaya (Japen island and the Arfak region).
	www.orchidspng.com /island_of_new_guinea.html (3441 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Victory in Papua
		Ioribaiwa, the Imita Range, and Uberi, traversing in its course mountain peaks 5,000 and 6,000 feet high, and sharp, eastwest ridges whose altitude is from 3,000 to 4,000 feet.
		Yokoyama was specifically ordered to put the "road" east of the Owen Stanley Range in condition to handle motor traffic, and to prepare the "roads" in the mountains for the use, if not of vehicles, at least of pack horses.
		Owen was now desperately in need of the very reinforcements that New Guinea Force had recalled the previous day.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-P-Papua/USA-P-Papua-5.html (7157 words)

	Owen Stanley Range
		The range was named after a British explorer who visited the coast of New Guinea in the 1840s.
		The Kokoda Trail: This 60-mile trail, leading from the Port Moresby area up into the Owen Stanley Range, was first used by gold miners in the 1890's.
		The plan was to land on the north coast near Popondetta, travel south to Kokoda and then march up over the central range to Sogeri and down to Port Moresby.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /png/about_destin/owenstanlyrange.html (790 words)

	Imita Ridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The factors that had operated so adversely against the Australians at the beginning of the Owen Stanley campaign; the misty, rainy, muddy, precipitous mountains, slippery tracks and thick forests with incredibly bad supply facilities and enormous medical problems were now operating even more effectively against the Japanese.
		The 25th Brigade pursued the Japanese from the foothills of the Owen Stanley Ranges and on 13 November, the 2/31st Battalion crossed the wide, swift Kumusi River with the coast 60 kilometres away.
		The four month campaign in the Owen Stanley Ranges to defend Port Moresby had ended in the complete defeat of the Japanese.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /history/campaign/imita.html (765 words)

	Port Moresby Region
		The rain shadow created by the Owen Stanley Range means that the city receives less than 1,270 millimetres (50 inches) of precipitation per year, far less than the average rainfall on New Guinea Island.
		Surrounding the National Capital District is Central Province, a narrow coastal strip which rises to the 4000 metre high Owen Stanley Ranges which form its northern border and divides and isolates the Province from the north.
		After a short flight climbing into the Owen Stanley Ranges, the light aircraft lands, with little descent onto an airstrip cut into the side of the mountain.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /png/about_destin/port_moresby.html (838 words)

	PNG Mountains, Volcanoes and Caves
		Mt Albert Edward is located in Goilala area of the Owen Stanley Range in Central Province.
		It is the only site on the Owen Stanley Range that can see both Port Moresby and Lae.
		The Mount Victoria range is north of Port Moresby.
	www.michie.net /png_faqs/05121570_1.shtml (1453 words)

	Laser Tag: Missions: Kokoda Trail
		The Owen Stanley Ranges campaign was the third prong of a Japanese attack to gain possession of Port Moresby.
		Kokoda is a small plateau on the north-east slopes of the Owen Stanley Range and possessed a small air-strip the retention of which, for at least as long as it would take us to fly in supplies and reinforcements, was of great importance.
		Valiant though their effort was, they even recaptured the plateau after being driven out, the Japanese need was of equal importance as they required a forward base at Kokoda for their drive over the ranges along the "Kokoda Trail" to Port Moresby and they struck before we were able to muster sufficient strength.
	www.laserskirmish.com /missions/KokodaTrail.htm (836 words)

	The Battle for Milne Bay
		The major assault, across the Owen Stanley Ranges via the Kokoda Track, was progressing only slowly in the harsh terrain, difficult resupply conditions and in the face of vigorous Australian resistance.
		On the northern side of a Bay, a poor track allowed some land movement, unlike on the southern side where the Stanley Range met the water in a series of impassable ridges and gorges.
		Although, at the western or inner end of the Bay, near Gili Gili, the flat lands were sufficient to permit several dispersed airfields to be constructed, no one thought Milne Bay was a good place in which to conduct military operations.
	www.defence.gov.au /Army/AHU/history/Battles/Milne_Bay.htm (1231 words)

	Araucaria hunsteinii description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If this record is valid (I have seen no confirming evidence), this would rank it as one of the tallest trees in the world, and certainly the tallest in the Araucariaceae.
		"In the Owen Stanley Mountains [of Papua New Guinea] a National Park shared between several Provinces (Central, Oro and Milne Bay) should be established.
		It should include the high altitude areas of the Owen Stanley Ranges, in particular Mts.
	www.conifers.org /ar/ar/hunsteinii.htm (563 words)

	2002 History Conference - Remembering 1942 [Australian War Memorial]
		This message, which one senior code-breaker called "one of the three most important to be decoded in the war", formed the basis for a GHQ Intelligence Summary on 23 May 1942, but was disregarded by MacArthur's intelligence staff.
		He had based the defence of Port Moresby on the belief that a garrison at Milne Bay and a picket on the crest of the Owen Stanley's, in addition to air and naval forces, would be sufficient, while he prepared for his spectacular offensive bounds.
		For example, on 13 August, a fortnight before the Isurava battle, GHQ suggested that the "pass" through the Owen Stanley Ranges could be blocked by demolitions.
	www.awm.gov.au /events/conference/2002/horner.htm (4176 words)

	Battle_of_Kokoda_trail
		The Kokoda Track itself is single-file track starting just outside Port Moresby on the Coral Sea and (depending on definition) runs 40–100 kilometres through the Owen Stanley Ranges to Kokoda and the coastal lowlands beyond by the Solomon Sea.
		After a gruelling advance across the Owen Stanleys and see-sawing battles with the Australians, the Japanese offensive was finally halted at Imita Ridge, outside Port Moresby.
		The worn-out soldiers of Maroubra Force were relieved by the 25th Brigade commanded by Brigadier Ken Eather.
	www.purchasesilver.com /search.php?title=Battle_of_Kokoda_trail (2170 words)

	Government House - Perth, Western Australia
		The second approach, across the Owen Stanleys, which also began in force on August 26, caught the Australians by surprise.
		The 39th Battalion had been ordered to cross the tortuous Owen Stanley Range to secure an air base at Buna (BOO-NA), some 200 kilometres away.
		Carrying around 30 kilograms of equipment on their backs, they battled the constant wetness, knee deep mud and tortuous terrain of the Owen Stanley Ranges.
	www.govhouse.wa.gov.au /cgi-bin/speeches.pl?id=21 (1011 words)

	Owen - City of Owen Sound Ontario Canada... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dealing with a common childhood trauma, OWEN is the story of a toddler-aged mouse who is quite attached to Fuzzy, his yellow security blanket.
		Owen does everything with Fuzzy, from eating his breakfast, to playing in the yard, to visiting the dentist; a situation that doesn't bother Owen's parents--until a nosey neighbor named Mrs.
		Now determined to separate their son from Fuzzy, Owen's parents do all they can to get Owen to give up his security blanket.
	www.discountshoppingdance.com /cool/owen-2555902-so (396 words)

	A Report on the Environmental Impacts of the Presence of Tateumdina ocellicauda within Australia
		The peacock gudgeon (Tateurndina ocellicauda) is said to be common in its natural habitat that is rainforest streams on the northeastern side of the Owen Stanley Range of Eastern Papua New Guinea (Allen 1991).
		This method of determining a range for a species is only approximate and to be more accurate minimum winter temperatures of all creeks, rivers, billabongs, lakes and water bodies should be considered.
		On the northeastern side of the Owen Stanley Range Eastern Papua New Guinea, common in rainforest streams in the vicinity of Safia and Popondetta.
	www.angfa.org.au /peacockrpt-final.html (11719 words)

	Hiri Cultural Tour Papua New Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Owen’s Corner was some 15km further along this track and signified the start of the Trail proper.
		It encompassed from Hula in the far SE some 100km away, through Tubuseria along the coastline up to Bootless Bay with Port Moresby some 30km to the south.
		The view to the west stretched into the Owen Stanley Ranges.
	www.frenchviss.qld.edu.au /hiri17.htm (553 words)

	EFOGI
		Efogi was a small village on the southern slopes of the Owen Stanley Ranges and was the fourth staging post where many troops stopped overnight as they advanced over the Kokoda Track.
		The village, with an altitude of some 2,000 metres was in a large river valley across which could be seen the next night's stop at Kagi, but it would be a hard day's climb.
		They were followed by the 2/33rd Battalion who buried the bodies of the Australians who were killed during the withdrawal.
	www.kokodawalkway.com.au /stations/efogi.html (525 words)

	Remembering 1942 Milne Bay, 5 September 1942 [Australian War Memorial]
		Their prime objective was the capture of Port Moresby, but a naval force attempting to attack Port Moresby from the sea was turned back at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
		With the navy thwarted by sea, the Japanese army set out to capture Port Moresby from the north, by crossing the Owen Stanley Ranges via the Kokoda Trail.
		As an added advantage, allied aircraft would be able to attack the Japanese on the north coast without first making the climb over the Owen Stanleys.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/remembering1942/milnebay/transcript.htm (1776 words)

	03/29/00 -- Greenpeace Mulls Lawsuit Against Aussie Mining Companies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Local villagers were told not drink from their usual water supplies and company managing director Michael Silver said he could not guarantee that no one would not be affected by the spill, caused after a one tonne box of cyanide pellets broke loose from a helicopter.
		It smashed apart on impact on the jungle floor in the foothills of the Owen Stanley ranges.
		The pellets were the same chemical that poisoned the Danube river system in Hungary and Romania after 100,000 cubic metres (3.5 million cubic feet) of cyanide-laced water spilled out of Aurul mining company in the northern Romanian town of Baia Mare.
	forests.org /archive/png/sueausgp.htm (577 words)

	Herald Sun: WWII veterans remembered (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The wreath-laying ceremony, held at The Cenotaph in central Sydney's Martin Place, was a time to remember all those who had suffered during the war 59 years since it ended, NSW RSL state president Don Rowe said.
		He paid special tribute to the 2,000 Australian troops who died defending the Owen Stanley Ranges against the Japanese in Papua New Guinea.
		Mr Rowe said turning back the Japanese over the Owen Stanley Ranges came at a high price, with Australia and the United States suffering 8500 casualties.
	www.heraldsun.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5478,10451420^1702,00.html (321 words)

	World Expeditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For most the Kokoda Trail is a fitting reminder of the Australian army's heroic battles, fought in 1942, to defend Port Moresby at extraordinary odds from the advancing forces of the Japanese.
		These historic encounters on the Owen Stanley Ranges ensure that the Kokoda Trail remains a classic.
		We trek across the geographical heart of PNG following trails from the tropical rainforests to the rarified climes of the ranges.
	www.worldexpeditions.com.au /index.php?section=trips&id=85 (166 words)

	[No title]
		The soldiers were forced to walk along the narrow path, surrounded by thick jungle on both sides.
		They crossed very rugged terrain including the Owen Stanley Ranges, which are 2,000 metres high.
		The walk takes you through different types of forest and is home to many different species of flora and fauna, particularly an abundant range of bird life.
	www.parkweb.vic.gov.au /education/Resources/kokoda_questions_primary.doc (1015 words)

	the great outdoors
		Kokoda is the name of a Village at the foot of northern edge of the Owen Stanley Ranges, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
		The Kokoda walking trail is a 2,000 year old communications path between the villages over the mountains.
		Located in the Dandenong Ranges, a 40 minute drive north east of Melbourne, this is a one to two hour uphill walk of medium difficulty which takes you through the State Park.
	thegreatoutdoors.com.au /general.php?ID=2098 (605 words)

	[No title]
		What mountain range does the Kokoda trail traverse?
		What are the name of the people who live in the central mountains of Papua New Guinea, at a latitude of six degrees below the equator and at a mean altitude of about 1500 meters above sea level?
		The peak of Mt. Lamington is 1,585 metres above sea level.
	www.michie.net /png_faqs/05121570_3.shtml (492 words)

	Papua New Guinea Forum - Lest we forget!
		July 23 — Remembrance Day — marks the 61st anniversary of he first engagement between the opposing troops on July 23, 1942, and from that engagement, as the Australian force was progressively outnumbered, began the long fighting withdrawal over the Owen Stanley Range.
		Between Kokoda and Ilolo, the track often climbed up gradients so steep that it was heartbreaking labor for burdened men to climb even a few hundred yards.
		The Japanese, who were regularly bombing Port Moresby with twenty to thirty bombers with fighter escort, decided on the overland attack across the Owen Stanley Ranges.
	www.pngbd.com /forum/t6383s.html (1879 words)

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