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(The name Tauern is probably pre-Slavic, but there is also a common Slavic word, tur-'swelling, ridge, elongated hillock', etc.). [1] [2] Another postulation is that the Tauern is the only mountain range that has kept its pre-Slavic name in
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 ...
The range forms a part of the main chain of the Alps.The highest peak of the Lower Tauern is the Hochgolling, part of the Schladming Tauern, at 2,863 m (9,393 ft). ...
Main ridge (Fuscherkarkopf) in the Hohe Tauern range. From the Maloja Pass (1,815 m) the main watershed dips to the south-east for a short distance, and then runs eastwards and nearly over the highest summit of the Bernina Range, Piz Bernina (4,049 m), to the Bernina Pass.
Fuscherkarkopf massif, Hohe Tauern. Austria has six national parks, all of them internationally accepted according to the IUCN standard. The first national park, Hohe Tauern, was established in 1981. [1] They include each of Austria's most important natural landscape types — alluvial forest, Alpine massif, Pannonian steppe and rocky valleys. [2]
The Goldberg Group lies in the eastern half of the Hohe Tauern range. In the west of the group is the Großglockner High Alpine Road, in the east runs the Tauern Railway. The boundaries of the Goldberg Group, based on the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps, where they are shown as group no. 42, are formed as follows: [1]
The Schladming Tauern [1] [2] (German: Schladminger Tauern) are a subrange of the Austrian Central Alps within the Eastern Alps.Together with the Radstadt Tauern, the Rottenmann and Wölz Tauern and the Seckau Tauern the Schladming Tauern form the major range known as the Low Tauern.
[1] [2] The region around the mountain has formed part of the Grossglockner-Pasterze special protected area within the High Tauern National Park since 1986. [ 3 ] The Glockner is the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Ortler range, about 175 km (109 mi) away, and, after Mont Blanc , has the second greatest topographic isolation of all ...