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High Tauern
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mountain range on the main chain of the Central Eastern Alps
Key facts
- Peak
- Grossglockner
- Elevation
- 3,798 m (12,461 ft)
- Coordinates
- 47°04′30″N 12°41′40″E / 47.07500°N 12.69444°E / 47.07500; 12.69444
- Length
- 130 km (81 mi)
- Width
- 50 km (31 mi)
- Countries
- Austria Italy
- States
- Salzburg Carinthia Tyrol South Tyrol
- Parent range
- Central Eastern Alps
- Orogeny
- Alpine
- Rock age
- Paleozoic
- Rock types
- Gneiss Schist
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The High Tauern (pl.; German: Hohe Tauern, Italian: Alti Tauri) are a mountain range on the main chain of the Central Eastern Alps, comprising the highest peaks east of the Brenner Pass. The crest forms the southern border of the Austrian states of Salzburg, Carinthia and East Tyrol, with a small part in the southwest belongs to the Italian province of South Tyrol. The range includes Austria's highest mountain, the Grossglockner at 3,798 metres (12,461 ft) above the Adriatic.
In the east, the range is adjoined by the Lower Tauern. For the etymology of the name, see Tauern.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “High Tauern” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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