Owen Stanley

Owen Stanley

Owen Stanley (spr. ō'n stännlì), Bergkette in Britisch-Neuguinea, benannt nach Kapitän Owen Stanley, der sie 1848 entdeckte, im Mount Victoria, den 1889 Sir W. Macgregor bestieg, 4370 m hoch.


http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905. 1905–1909.

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