Great Dividing Range
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- proper noun
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Gran Cordillera Divisoria
- Many tourists travel to the Great Dividing Range to experience its stunning natural beauty.
Examples
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The Great Dividing Range influences the climate, creating a barrier that affects weather patterns in eastern Australia.
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Diseased horses were located throughout most of NSW, west of the Great Dividing Range, but also extending through the Hunter River Valley region, Sydney Basin, and Illawarra coastal region immediately south of Sydney (Figure 1, panel B).
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Figure 1. Known distribution of West Nile virus infection and disease caused by Kunjin strain (A) and distribution of encephalitis cases among equids (B), New South Wales, Australia, 2011. Dashed line indicates the Great Dividing Range.
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The Great Dividing Range extends over 3,500 kilometers along the eastern coast of Australia.
Synonyms
A mountain range along the east coast of Australia from Queensland to Victoria
Surface Forms
Morphology
The headword 'range' clearly signals a chain of mountains, while 'great' indicates size and 'dividing' conveys that it separates regions; together these constituents transparently describe a large mountain range that divides land. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer it refers to a major mountain range (though they might not know the precise Australian location).
Etymology
Great Dividing Range gets its name from a simple picture: Great (very large), Dividing (they 'divide' where rain and rivers go), and Range (a line of mountains). That's why the name means the long mountain chain along eastern Australia that separates the coast from the inland.