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Map alps mtns. The alps are a mountain system located in south central europe immediately north of the mediterranean sea. They extend for almost 700 miles in a crescent shape from the coastline of southern france near monaco into switzerland then through northern italy and into austria and down through. Alps a small segment of a discontinuous mountain chain that stretches from the atlas mountains of north africa across southern europe and asia to beyond the himalayas.

The alps extend north from the subtropical mediterranean coast near nice france to lake geneva before trending east northeast to vienna. The turkic word alp means brave which indicates a highness in character and masculinity. The english version alps derives from the latin alpes through frenchmaurus servius honoratus an ancient commentator of virgil says in his commentary a.

X 13 that all high mountains are called alpes by celts. The term may be common to italo celtic because the celtic languages have terms for. The alps are a range of mountains in europe caused by uplift in the european plate as it is impacted by the african plate moving north.

They stretch from italy through france switzerland liechtenstein germany austria and into slovenia. 1001 mountains of the alps. Our map depicts the most important mountains in the alps.

We first selected the geographically most prominent mountains. All mountains in the alps with a prominence of at least 500 metres are included totalling 919 mountains and three height twins including montblanc matterhorn grossglockner and zugspitze. Mountain ranges map quiz game.

Mountains ranges form when two or more plates in the earths crust collide into one another. With nowhere to go the colliding land masses are forced upwards creating the mountain peaks that we can see on the landscape. That process is still ongoing.

The himalayan mountains for example are estimated to grow at a rate of six centimeters per year. This page contains a table listing by elevation all 537 mountains of the alps that exceed 3000 m and have a topographic prominence of at least 300 m. The list is continued down to 2500 m elevation on this page and down to 2000 m elevation on this pageall of these mountains are located in france italy switzerland liechtenstein austria germany or slovenia.

Topographic map of the alps with realtime gps positioning. Topographic mountain range maps for all summer outdoor sporting activities such as hiking rock climbing and mountain biking winter map. Topographic mountain range maps for winter outdoor sporting activities.

Includes colored slope inclination and routes for ski tours and can also be used for snow shoe tours. The backbone of our map consists of contour lines at intervals of 250 meters. Thus the map looks vivid and nicely illustrates the topography of the alps.

In addition to the borders of the eight alpine countries and their regions the map displays the most important roads and rivers as well as cities and mountains as reference points. Find local businesses view maps and get driving directions in google maps. When you have eliminated the javascript whatever remains must be an empty page.