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THE Owen Stanley Range of New Guinea, which has been so long known at a distance, has at last been ascended. Mr. E. H. Martin, of Queensland, in August last, reached the summit of the range, which he found to be 13,205 feet high. He reports the north side of the range to be a paradise with great tree-fern”, palms, and other magnificent tropical vegetation. Mr. W. R. Cuthbertson, the leader of the Australian Geographical Society's Expedition, started for Port Moresby on July 20 last, with Mr. G. Hunter as interpreter. Mr. Cuthbertson has not yet succeeded in ascending to the highest point of the Owen Stanley Range, as he intended, but ascended Mount O'Bree, 10,240 feet.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 37, 66–67 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037066c0
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