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Owen Stanley Range is the south-eastern part of the central mountain-chain in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
. It was seen in 1849 by Captain Owen Stanley
Owen Stanley

Captain Owen Stanley Fellow of the Royal Society Royal Navy was commander of HMS Rattlesnake on a four year exploratory expedition to New Guinea, 1846?1850....
 while surveying the south coast of Papua and named after him. Strictly, the eastern extremity of the range is Mount Victoria
Mount Victoria, Papua New Guinea

Mount Victoria is the highest point in the Owen Stanley Ranges in Central Province, Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at 4,072 metres. It lies approximately 75km north-north-west of Port Moresby and can be seen on a clear day from the city....
 , which was climbed by Sir William Macgregor
William MacGregor

Sir William MacGregor Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Bath, was a Lieutenant-Governors of Newfoundland and Labrador and Governor of Queensland....
 in 1888, and it extends as far west as Mount Thynne and Lilley. But the name is generally used to denote the whole of the chain from Mount Chapman
Mount Chapman

Mount Chapman is a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains, located in the Southeastern United States. It has an elevation of 6,417 feet above sea level....
  to the south-eastern end of the island, and to include Mount Albert Edward
Mount Albert Edward, Papua New Guinea

Mount Albert Edward is a 3,990 metre high mountain in the Wharton Range in Central Province, Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea. The mountain consists of two peaks about 400 metres apart, a cross marks the top of the slightly higher western peak and a trig station marks the eastern peak....
  which is really separated from it by the Wharton Chain.

The range is flanked by broken and difficult country, particularly on the south-western side.






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Owen Stanley Range is the south-eastern part of the central mountain-chain in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
. It was seen in 1849 by Captain Owen Stanley
Owen Stanley

Captain Owen Stanley Fellow of the Royal Society Royal Navy was commander of HMS Rattlesnake on a four year exploratory expedition to New Guinea, 1846?1850....
 while surveying the south coast of Papua and named after him. Strictly, the eastern extremity of the range is Mount Victoria
Mount Victoria, Papua New Guinea

Mount Victoria is the highest point in the Owen Stanley Ranges in Central Province, Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at 4,072 metres. It lies approximately 75km north-north-west of Port Moresby and can be seen on a clear day from the city....
 , which was climbed by Sir William Macgregor
William MacGregor

Sir William MacGregor Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Bath, was a Lieutenant-Governors of Newfoundland and Labrador and Governor of Queensland....
 in 1888, and it extends as far west as Mount Thynne and Lilley. But the name is generally used to denote the whole of the chain from Mount Chapman
Mount Chapman

Mount Chapman is a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains, located in the Southeastern United States. It has an elevation of 6,417 feet above sea level....
  to the south-eastern end of the island, and to include Mount Albert Edward
Mount Albert Edward, Papua New Guinea

Mount Albert Edward is a 3,990 metre high mountain in the Wharton Range in Central Province, Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea. The mountain consists of two peaks about 400 metres apart, a cross marks the top of the slightly higher western peak and a trig station marks the eastern peak....
  which is really separated from it by the Wharton Chain.

The range is flanked by broken and difficult country, particularly on the south-western side. There are few practicable passes, the easiest being the famous Kokoda Track
Kokoda Track

The Kokoda Track or Trail is a single-file foot thoroughfare that runs overland — in a straight line — through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea ....
 which crosses the range between Port Moresby
Port Moresby

||-||-||-||-||-||}Port Moresby , or Pot Mosbi in Tok Pisin, population 255,000 , is the Capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea ....
 and Buna and was in use for more than 50 years as a regular overland mail-route. Another route used by the 900 men of the 2nd Battalion, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division, was the Kapa Kapa Trail
Kapa Kapa Trail

Kapa Kapa Trail is a mountain trail that stretches from Kapa Kapa, Papua New Guniea village on the south coast of Papua New Guinea, across the Owen Stanley Range....
, parallel to but to the southeast of the Kokoda Track. They took nearly five weeks to cover the track over extraordinarily difficult jungle terrain, from 14 October to 20 November 1942.

Vehicular roads, though not impossible, would be very difficult and expensive to construct. In fact one was constructed during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 crossing from Wau
Wau

Wau is a town in Papua New Guinea, in the province of Morobe. It has a population of approx 5,000 and situated at an altitude of around 1100m. Wau was the site of a Gold rush during the 1920's and 30's when prospective gold diggers arrived at the coast at Salamaua and struggled inland along the Black Cat Track....
 in the north to Bulldog in the south and known as the Bulldog track
Bulldog track

The Bulldog Track, also known as the Bulldog-Wau road, in the year 2004 is a foot track crossing the western end of the Owen Stanley Range of Central Papua New Guinea....
. It was largely due to the impossibility of transporting heavy equipment across the range that the Japanese failed to secure Port Moresby as a base early in 1942. The mountains are rough and precipitous, with occasional fertile plateaux which are occupied by native food-gardens.

See also

  • Australian Encyclopaedia
    Australian Encyclopaedia

    The Australian Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia focused on Australia. In addition to biographies of notable Australians the coverage includes the geology, flora, fauna as well as the history of the continent....
    , Vol 6, p. 430, Grolier