The Alpine Way, which crosses this mountain range, crosses the Swampy Plain River. A short-lived 1860 gold rush in this mountain range's town of Kiandra established a foundation for its present-day ski resorts of Thredbo and Perisher. A regional council named for this range and Monaro is home to the ski town of Jindabyne near the Charlotte Pass. Paweł Strzelecki (“streh-LEH-skee") named the peak of this range, the tallest in its country, for its resemblance to a man-made mound in (*) Krakow. (-5[1])Mount Kosciuszko is in this part of the Great Dividing Range, where (-5[1])William Hudson engineered a system to deliver power to cities like Sydney (-5[1])and Melbourne. For 10 points, a namesake hydroelectric “scheme” is located in what range in southeast Australia named for its propensity for precipitation? ■END■ (0[3])