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The High Tatras or High Tatra Mountains (Slovak: ... photos of villages in the High Tatras Archived 2009-03-26 at the Wayback Machine — after the 2004 storm calamity
The High Tatras, with their 24 (or 25) peaks exceeding 2,500 m above sea level, together with the Southern Carpathians, represent the only form of alpine landscape in the entire 1,200 kilometres (746 miles) length of arc of the Carpathians.
Kozi Wierch is a mountain situated in the High Tatras mountain range in Poland, between the Gąsienicowa Valley and the Valley of Five Polish Lakes.At 2291 meters, it's the highest peak located entirely on Polish territory.
The town of Vysoké Tatry is special in many aspects. It is not a true town, but a conglomerate of separate and different settlements (originally separate villages), whose only common feature is that they are the main tourist resorts in the Slovak High Tatras, while being connected through a common railway network (the Tatra Railway).
Štrbské pleso (pronunciation ⓘ, German: Tschirmer See, Polish: Szczyrbskie jezioro, Hungarian: Csorbató or Csorba-tó) is a picturesque mountain lake of glacial origin and a top tourist destination in the High Tatras, Slovakia. It is the second-largest glacial lake on the Slovak side of the High Tatras, after Veľké Hincovo pleso. Maximum ...
The first calls for protection of the Tatras came at the end of the 19th century. [5] In 1925, the first efforts to create a national park, in cooperation with Czechoslovakia, took place. The park was formally created in 1937, on an area that belonged to the state forests authority. In 1947, a separate administrative unit, Tatra Park, was created.
Outdoor enthusiasts and those with a head for heights may well be familiar with the snow-capped peaks of the High Tatras, the highest range in the Carpathian Mountains. With 26 peaks over 2,500m ...
Kriváň (pronunciation ⓘ) is a mountain in the High Tatras, Slovakia, that dominates the upper part of the former Liptov County. Multiple surveys among nature lovers have ranked it as the country's most beautiful peak.