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The range is perhaps best known for the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a project to dam the Snowy River, providing both water for irrigation and hydroelectricity. The project began in 1949 employing 100,000 men, two-thirds of whom came from thirty other countries during the post-World War II years.
The Snowy Mountains — a subrange of the Australian Alps in the Great Dividing Range System, located in New South Wales. In the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA), the Snowy Mountains are an IBRA subregion of the Australian Alps IBRA region .
Physiographic world map with mountain ranges and highland areas in brown, pink, and gray. This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies.First, the highest and longest mountain ranges on Earth are listed, followed by more comprehensive alphabetical lists organized by continent.
Mount Rainier and Mount Baker in Washington are the snowiest places in the United States which have weather stations, receiving 645 inches (1,640 cm) annually on average. By comparison, the populated place with the highest snowfall in the world is believed to be Sukayu Onsen in the Siberian -facing Japanese Alps .
List of mountains and hills of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; List of mountains in Samoa; List of mountains in São Tomé and Príncipe; List of mountains in Saudi Arabia; List of mountains in Serbia; List of mountains in Slovakia; List of mountains in Slovenia; List of mountains in South Africa; List of mountains of Sri Lanka
The mountains and plateaus, which consist of limestones, sandstone, quartzite, schists and dolomite, have been created by faulting and folding processes. [5] The crests of the Great Dividing Range is defined by the watershed boundary between the drainage basins of river systems east (the coastal or rainward side) and west (the inland or leeward ...
Highest points of countries (3 C, 195 P)-Mountains by dependent territory (11 C). One-thousanders by country (21 C) ... Mountains and hills of the United Kingdom (6 C ...
The Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales. The Australian Alps are important for conservation, recreation, and as a water drainage basin, with much of the range's eastern slopes having its runoff diverted artificially into the Murray River and its tributary the Murrumbidgee River through the civil engineering project of the Snowy Mountains ...