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The Wetterspitzen are three of the rocky peaks on a mountain ridge in the Wetterstein mountains in the central part of the Eastern Alps in Germany. They lie two kilometres, as the crow flies, southwest of Germany's highest peak, the Zugspitze, on the border between the Austrian province of Tyrol and the German state of Bavaria. The Wetterspitzen form the southwest perimeter of the Zugspitze ledge (Zugspitzplatt); below and to the east is the ski region on the Schneeferner with its research station, the Schneefernerhaus.

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Mountain.name
The Wetterspitzen
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The Wetterspitzen as part of the mountain ridge. Left: the Wetterwandeck; right: centre of the Eastern Wetterspitze: further right: the striking Middle Wetterspitze; far right: the Northern Wetterspitze.
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2750
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Alps
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Location in the Alps
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250
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right
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Border between Austria (Tyrol) and Germany (Bavaria)
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Northern Limestone Alps (Wetterstein Mountains)
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From the Zugspitzplatt

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The Wetterspitzen are three of the rocky peaks on a mountain ridge in the Wetterstein mountains in the central part of the Eastern Alps in Germany. They lie two kilometres, as the crow flies, southwest of Germany's highest peak, the Zugspitze, on the border between the Austrian province of Tyrol and the German state of Bavaria. The Wetterspitzen form the southwest perimeter of the Zugspitze ledge (Zugspitzplatt); below and to the east is the ski region on the Schneeferner with its research station, the Schneefernerhaus.

The three peaks are the: Northern Wetterspitze (Nördliche Wetterspitze) - high; Southern or Middle Wetterspitze (Südliche (Mittlere) Wetterspitze) - high; Eastern Wetterspitze (Östliche Wetterspitze) - high.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wetterspitzen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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