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Until the mid twentieth century, the name Vercors was used to describe only the township of La Chapelle-en-Vercors (with Royans), and the northern area around Lans-en-Vercors, Villard-de-Lans, Autrans, and Méaudre (with Grenoble) and was known as the Four Mountains area.
The mountain is within the Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park. The GSSP for the Tournaisian is near the summit of La Serre hill, in the commune of Cabrières , in the Montagne Noire. [ 4 ] The GSSP is in a section on the southern side of the hill, in an 80 cm deep trench, about 125 m south of the summit, 2.5 km southwest of the village of ...
The "Syndicat mixte du Salève" was created in 1994 and regroups the twenty communes on whose ground the Salève is located. Its objective is to appreciate and protect the mountain which is a "preserved island" in the middle of a French-Suisse territory that is highly urbanized with more than 700.000 inhabitants.
Mountains located on islands and overseas departments are not included. Mountains of continental France. Rank ... La Tournette: 2,351 7,713: 1,514 4,967
The Dents du Midi from Corbeyrier, to the north.. The Dents du Midi are situated on the border between the communes of Val-d'Illiez and Evionnaz.The north face rises above the Val d'Illiez while the south face overlooks the Lac de Salanfe, an artificial reservoir.
The first definition of the Monteregian Hills came about in 1903 when Montreal geologist Frank Dawson Adams began referring to Mount Royal (Latin, Mons Regius) and mountains of similar geology in the Saint Lawrence Lowlands as the "Royal Mountains" (French: montagnes royales). [1]
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The main mountain passes, or cols, that connect different valleys and towns around the Mont Blanc massif are: [2] [3] [note 2] Col du Bonhomme 2,329 m (7,641 ft) (path, links Contamines – Beaufort – Les Chapieux) Col de la Seigne 2,516 m (8,255 ft) (path, links Bourg Saint Maurice – Les Chapieux – Courmayeur)