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Woman survives snake bite during days lost in Australia’s Snowy Mountains • Oct. 29, 2024, 9:32 AM ET (CNN)
'Fortunate to be alive': Photographer found injured after spending nearly two weeks lost in Snowy Mountains • Oct. 28, 2024, 1:53 AM ET (ABC News (Australia))
Missing woman found with snakebite in remote mountains • Oct. 27, 2024, 3:51 AM ET (BBC)
Eucumbene dam and lake, Snowy River, New South Wales, Australia
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Snowy Mountains, range in the Australian Alps, southeastern New South Wales, including several peaks that exceed 7,000 feet (2,100 metres)—notably Mount Kosciuszko, the highest in Australia. On their slopes rise the Murray, Murrumbidgee, and Tumut rivers, which flow inland, and the Snowy River, which flows southward to Bass Strait. Waters are diverted by aqueducts and tunnels and stored for power and irrigation by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme (constructed 1949–74), a hydroelectric project that includes 16 dams and several reservoirs (notably Lake Eucumbene) and has a capacity of 3,740 megawatts. Snow-covered for three to six months, the range is a winter sports area and site of Kosciuszko National Park, which extends northward for 100 miles (160 km) from the Victoria border. Explored in 1840 by Paul Strzelecki, the mountains were originally called Muniong (Munyang), a name now applied to their northeastern extremity.

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