Captain Owen Stanley FRS RN (13 June 1811 – 13 March 1850) was a British Royal Navy officer and surveyor. Stanley was born in Alderley, Cheshire, the...
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Owen Stanley Range is the south-eastern part of the central mountain-chain in Papua New Guinea. Its highest point is Mount Victoria at 4,038 metres (13...
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Kokoda Track (redirect from Owen Stanley Track)
(60 mi) overland – 60 kilometres (37 mi) in a straight line – through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The track was the location of the 1942...
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English merchant and politician William Stanley (1640–1670), English politician, MP for Liverpool William Owen Stanley (1802–1884), British MP and Lord Lieutenant...
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William Owen Stanley (13 November 1802 – 24 February 1884) was a British Liberal Party politician. Stanley was the son of John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of...
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countries, was awarded to Michael Owen on 18 December 2001. Owen was the fourth English national to win the award after Stanley Matthews (1956), Bobby Charlton...
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Australia by air. But the Japanese fought up the northern side of the Owen Stanley Mountains and in the middle of September, after weeks of fighting, descended...
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Suffolk. Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster (1861–1934) Owen Stanley Buckmaster, 2nd Viscount Buckmaster (1890–1974) Martin Stanley Buckmaster...
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Battalion, assisted by several hundred natives carriers, was sent across the Owen Stanley Ranges via the Kapa Kapa Trail toward Jaure, where they were to flank...
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by having the Stanley Embankment named after Edward Owen Stanley as well as Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley (Holyhead Hospital) and The Stanley Arms, a pub in...
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