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单词 new zealand alps
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New Zealand Alps
b. spec. In New Zealand: the mountain range of the South Island. Also known as the Southern Alps or (formerly) New Zealand Alps.
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1773 J. R. Forster Jrnl. 18 Apr. in 'Resolution' Jrnl. (1982) II. 260 We saw the Snow lying on the tops of some of the New-Zeeland Alps.
1794 J. Payne Universal Geogr. I. App. i. iv. §ii. 804/2 A range of mountains is supposed to extend nearly the whole length of Poenammoo: these were in one part called the southern Alps.
1862 Huddersfield Chron. & W. Yorks. Advertiser 6 Sept. 3/5 The great Southern Alps, clothed with perpetual snow.
1868 C. W. Dilke Greater Brit. I. 340 The Rocky Mountains..are..not less snowy than the New Zealand Alps.
1885 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1884 17 189 In August I measured the ice in one of the lagoons on top of the Alps.
1910 E. H. Grossman Heart of Bush 30 The Alps themselves were too delightful to be resisted.
1950 Life 15 May 39/1 New Zealand's Southern Alps, which rise as high as 10,000 feet above sea level.
2012 Southland Times (N.Z.) (Nexis) 30 Apr. 8 A kaleidoscope of rock types, bright pink for volcanic rock,..yellow for gravels sent from the alps to the plains.
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