Editing Great Dividing Range (section)

{{Short description|Mountain range in Australia}}
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{{Infobox mountain
| name              = Great Dividing Range
| native_name       = 
| other_name        = {{hlist|Eastern Highlands|Great Divide}}
| photo             = The_great_dividing_range.jpg
| photo_caption     = Great Dividing Range
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| country           = Australia<ref name="AustraliDotGovDotAu"/>
| subdivision1_type = States/Districts
| subdivision1      = {{hlist|[[New South Wales]]|[[Queensland]]|[[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]|[[Australian Capital Territory]]}}
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| geology           = 
| age               = Carboniferous
| orogeny           = 
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| area_km2          = 
| length_km         = 3500
| length_orientation= North–South
| width_km          = 
| width_orientation = 
| highest           = [[Mount Kosciuszko]]
| highest_location  = [[Snowy Mountains]]
| elevation_m       = 2228
| elevation_ref     = <ref name="KNP"/>
| coordinates       = {{coord|36|27|21|S|148|15|49|E|region:AU|display=inline}}
| range_coordinates = {{coord|25|S|147|E|region:AU|display=inline,title}}
| map_image         = Topography_of_australia_great_dividing_range.jpg
| map_size          = 240
| map_caption       = The Great Dividing Range consists of a complex of mountain ranges, plateaus, upland areas and escarpments.
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The '''Great Dividing Range''', also known as the '''East Australian Cordillera''' or the '''Eastern Highlands''', is a [[cordillera]] system in eastern [[Australia]] consisting of an expansive collection of [[mountain range]]s, [[plateau]]s and [[hill|rolling hills]]. It runs roughly parallel to the [[east coast of Australia]] and forms the [[list of longest mountain chains on Earth|fifth-longest land-based mountain chain in the world]], and the longest entirely within a single country. It is [[mainland Australia]]'s most substantial [[topographic feature]] and serves as the definitive [[drainage divide|watershed]] for the [[river system]]s in eastern Australia, hence the name.

The Great Dividing Range stretches more than {{convert|3500|km|mi|0}} from [[Dauan Island, Queensland|Dauan Island]] in the [[Torres Strait]] off the northern tip of [[Cape York Peninsula]], running the entire length of the eastern coastline through [[Queensland]] and [[New South Wales]], then turning west across [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] before finally fading into the [[Wimmera|Wimmera plains]] as rolling hills west of the [[Grampians (region)|Grampians region]].  The width of the Range varies from about {{convert|160|km|mi|-1|abbr=on}} to over {{convert|300|km|mi|abbr=on}}.<ref name="Shaw">Shaw, John H., ''Collins Australian Encyclopedia'', William Collins Pty Ltd., Sydney, 1984, {{ISBN|0-00-217315-8}}</ref> The [[Greater Blue Mountains Area]], [[Gondwana Rainforests]] and [[Wet Tropics of Queensland]] [[World Heritage Area]]s are located in the Range. The highest place in Australia, the {{cvt|2228|m}} [[Mount Kosciuszko]], resides in the [[Snowy Mountains]] portion of southern Great Dividing Range.