Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An upland region of southwest Australia extending along the Pacific coast north and south of Perth.
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The Darling Range is the largest bauxite mining and alumina producing region in the world.
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Inland from the Whicher Range, the Blackwood Plateau is 100 m to 150 m above sea level, bounded to the north by the end of the Darling Range, and to the west by the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge.
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The Darling Range and the Yilgarn Plateau delineate the outer boundaries of this ecoregion while inland borders are defined largely by the decrease in rainfall.
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Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) and marri (Eucalyptus calophylla) forests dominate through much of this ecoregion, with jarrah the dominant species on the Darling Range.
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The surrounding country is broken by the foothills of the Darling Range and intersected by roads, fences, and -- here and there -- small watercourses.
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The 13th we spent in passing a portion of the Darling Range.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1
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The Williams is in the interior, and the Leschenault on the sea-coast, and between the two places lies the Darling Range, a high chain of mountains which had never before been crossed at this point.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1
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On the 12th we started before dawn and travelled about eight miles in a south by east direction; we then halted for breakfast on the banks of the same river, which here issues out of the Darling Range after having found
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1
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On the morning of the 14th we had only travelled six miles in a due easterly direction when I found we had crossed the Darling Range; our course now lay along a level fertile plain, well fitted for pastoral purposes.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1
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The appearance of the country about these lakes, of which there are several besides those I have named, and the plants which grow about them, which are generally met with at no great distance from the sea, seem to prove that the lakes are at no great distance from it, and that the Darling Range does not extend so far to the north.
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