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	Climate of the Alps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The effect of mountain chains on prevailing winds is to carry warm air belonging to the lower region into an upper zone, where it expands in volume at the cost of a proportionate loss of heat, often accompanied by the precipitation of moisture in the form of snow or rain.
		The Subalpine is the region which mainly determines the manner of life of the population of the Alps.
		In the conifer forests of the Alps the prevailing species are the Norway Spruce and the Silver Fir; on siliceous soil the European Larch flourishes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alpine_Region_of_the_Alps (1328 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Maritime Alps The chief peaks of the Maritime Alps, from the Col de Tenda to the Col de lArgentiere, are: The chief passes of the Maritime Alps, from the Col de Tenda to the Col de lArgentiere, are: This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclop...
		The chief peaks of the Cottian Alps, from the Col de lArgentiere to the Mont Cenis and westwards to the Col du Galibier, are: The chief passes of the Cottian Alps, from the Col de lArgentiere to the Mont Cenis and westwards to the Col du Galibier, are...
		Savona is a seaport and comune of the province of Savona in the northern Italian region of Liguria, 44°18′ N 8°29′ E, in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea, at sea-level.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alps (4647 words)

	MSN Encarta - Alps
		The valleys of the Alps are areas of year-round settlement; the flatter upland tracts comprise pastures and seasonally inhabited settlements, and the zone above the timberline serves as pasture and for recreation.
		Among the principal ranges are the Maritime, Ligurian, Cottian, and Alpes Grées in France and Italy and the Bernese, Glarus, and Pennine (or Valais) Alps in Switzerland.
		Well-known mountain chains of the Eastern Alps are the Bavarian Alps, Allgäu Alps, Hohe Tauern, and Niedere Tauern in the north and the Dolomite and Carnic Alps in the south.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562121/Alps.html (892 words)

	Alps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The border between the Central Eastern Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps is the Periadriatic Seam.
		The Alps arose as a result of the pressure exerted on sediments of the Tethys Ocean basin as its Mesozoic and early Cenozoic strata were pushed against the stable Eurasian landmass by the northward-moving African landmass.
		The successive emigration and occupation of the Alpine region by various Teutonic tribes from the 5th to the 6th centuries are known only in outline, because to them, as to the Frankish kings and emperors, the Alps offered a route from one place to another rather than a permanent residence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alps (1242 words)

	alpine region of the alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Throughout the Teutonic region of the Alps the word Alp is used specifically for the upper pastures where cattle are fed in summer, but this region is held to include the whole space between the uppermost limit of trees and the first appearance of permanent masses of snow.
		Three species of rhododendron vie with each other in the brilliancy of their masses of red or pink flowers; the Common juniper rises higher still, along with three species of bilberry; and several dwarf willows attain nearly to the utmost limit of vegetation.
		The upper limit of this region coincides with the so-called limit of perpetual snow.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Alpine_Region_of_the_Alps (202 words)

	Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Alps is the collective name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria in the east, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany, through to France in the west.
		The highest mountain in the Alps is the Mont Blanc at 4808 meters on the French-Italian border.
		The Alps of Bavaria, the Vorarlberg, and Salzburg - Tirolean Alps - Ortler, Oetzthal and Stubai Ranges - Lombard Alps - Dolomites - South-Eastern Alps
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/a/al/alps.html (179 words)

	Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Eastern Alps are commonly subdivided into the Northern Limestone Alps, the Central Eastern Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps, with reflects the different geological composition of the more central parts of the Alps and the groups at its fringe.
		The border between the Central Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps is the so-called Periadriatic Seam.
		The Northern Limestone Alps are separated from the Central Alps by the Grauwacken Zone.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/al/Alps.htm (649 words)

	Alps - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc at 4810 meters on the French-Italian border.
		The Eastern Alps are the part of the Alps east of the line between Lake Constance along the Rhine to Lake Como.
		Many writers take the growth of grain as the characteristic of the mountain region; but so many varieties of all the common species are in cultivation, and these have such different climatal requirements, that they do not afford a factory criterion.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Alps (590 words)

	Alps Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The border between the Central Eastern Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps is the so-called Periadriatic Seam.
		The successive emigration and occupation of the Alpine region by various Teutonic tribes from the 5th to the 6th centuries are, too, known only in outline, because to them, as to the Frankish kings and emperors, the Alps offered a route from one place to another rather than a permanent residence.
		The two first men who really systematically explored the regions of ice and snow were H.B. de Saussure (1740-1799), as regards the Pennine Alps, and the Benedictine monk of Disentis, Placidus a Spescha (1752-1833, most of whose ascents were made before 1806), in the valleys at the sources of the Rhine.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Alps (1558 words)

	The Alps - Alpine Sculpture
		Those who adopt the former maintain that the forces by which the Alps were elevated produced fissures in the earth's crust, and that the valleys of the Alps are the tracks of these fissures.
		The plains of Italy and Switzerland are cumbered by the débris of the Alps.
		The fracture theory infers from the disturbances of the Alps the existence of fissures ; and this is a probable inference.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles27n/alps-20.shtml (6621 words)

	French alps general travel info - Rhone Alpes Region and its departments.
		The region of the Haute-Savoie is situated from the Mont-Blanc (4 807m) to the Lac of Annecy, from the meridional side of the Lac Leman to the Alpages of Aramis (pre-alps), from the forest of the Bauges to the vineyards of Cotes du Rhone.
		In alpine villages, the houses are typical of the region.
		The Beaujolais region is divided into three geographical region: the Saone Valley (East), the Beaujolais hills and the green belt (West), and the Beaujolais vineyards area (Center).
	www.discoverfrance.com /regions/rhonealps.html (1613 words)

	Alpine article - Alpine Adjective Alps mountain range Europe alpine climate Canada United - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Adjective referring to the Alps mountain range in central Europe.
		The alpine garden is also known as a rock garden.
		Alpine article - Alpine definition - what means Alpine
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Alpine (141 words)

	The Lynx in the Italian Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This pattern suggests that the extinct, autochthonous Alpine population of Lynx lynx was one of the smallest in size in Europe.
		The somatic regions of the spotted type show a prevailing pattern of permanent fl spots (Ragni, 1981); in the striped type the pattern is arranged in horizontal stripes and bars of permanent-evanescent, brownish-fl; the concolor-type shows the somatic regions without marking or with a pattern so scattered and obsolescent that it cannot be defined.
		Such genetic characterization, besides the morphometric differentiation, permits the retention of the hypothesis that the Alpine lynx was not a mere, undifferentiated population of the Eurasian lynx.
	lynx.uio.no /lynx/nancy/news/cn19_01.htm (2289 words)

	Germany - Alpine Foreland and the Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Germany's portion of the Alps accounts for a very small part of the country's area and consists only of a narrow fringe of mountains that runs along the country's border with Switzerland and Austria from Lake Constance in the west to Salzburg, Austria, in the east.
		The western section of the German Alps are the Algäuer Alps, located between Lake Constance and the Lech River.
		The Bavarian Alps, the central section, lie between the Lech and Inn rivers and contain Germany's highest peak, the Zugspitze (2,963 meters).
	countrystudies.us /germany/78.htm (248 words)

	EMF Alps - News - Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This year the International Scientific Committee for Alpine Research (ISCAR), the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA), the municipality network Alliance in the Alps and the Network of Alpine Protected Areas (Alparc) are organising a joint conference in the form of an "Alpine Week".
		The first module addresses the general prospects for the Alpine region and the management of natural resources in connection with climate changes, from the viewpoint of biodiversity and the management of water resources.
		The main topics of the second module are the natural and cultural heritage of landscapes in the Alpine region.
	www.mtnforum.org /europe/alps/news.cfm?IDnews=337 (421 words)

	Alpine Initiative >> Article on the Protection of the Alps
		A few months after the adoption of the popular initiative for the protection of the Alpine region from transit traffic ("The Alpine Initiative") the Swiss parliament adopted a "Federal law on transiting road traffic in the Alps" (LTRA).
		Alpine Crossing Exchange: It is obvious that the adopted measures are not enough to achieve a transfer from road to rail within the mandatory deadline.
		The Alpine transit stock market can be used as fine control instrument in addition to the kilometre tax for heavy goods vehicles, a toll or a tunnel charge, and it can be implemented in all the countries affected.
	www.alpeninitiative.ch /e/Alpenschutzartikel-Inhalt.asp (2885 words)

	Alps -> Alpine Regions on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Central Alps (between the Great St. Bernard and Brenner passes) include, in the south, the Pennine, Lepontine, Phaetian, and Ötztal alps; and, in the north, the Bernina, Glarus, Allgäu, and Bavarian alps.
		The principal peaks of the Central Alps are Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn, the Finsteraarhorn, the Jungfrau, and the Wildspitze; the chief routes are the Simplon Tunnel and the St. Gotthard, Grimsel, Furka, Splügen, Bernina, and Brenner passes.
		The E Alps comprise, in the south, the Dolomites, the Carnic Alps, and the Julian Alps; and, in the north, the Hohe Tauern and Niedere Tauern; the principal eastern peak is Grossglockner.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Alps_AlpineRegions.asp (589 words)

	Alpine Tourist Commission - Alps Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Alpine Tourist Commission is a marketing organization consisting of the 4 Alpine countries Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
		In the Alpine Tourist Commission, our partners cooperate for the benefit of the American consumer as well as each ATC country and the Alpine region as a whole.
		The Alps are not only the world's greatest winter sports destination, but they have everything the sports-minded visitor could dream of - from hiking across glaciers to swimming in pristine lakes, mountain biking to paragliding, tennis to golf.
	www.alpseurope.com /about (255 words)

	West Coast, South Island, New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The West Coast of the Southern Alps is an adventure and outdoor paradise.
		The region is populated by only 31,000 people, known to New Zealanders as 'Coasters', a term synonymous with friendliness and hospitality.
		Isolated from the rest of New Zealand by the Southern Alps, Coasters have developed a distinctive culture of their own, where the pioneering values of self-reliance and hospitality are as strong now as they were a century ago.
	www.west-coast.co.nz (268 words)

	Human impact on the Alpine environment (from Alps) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The early travelers to the Alps were greatly inspired by the pristine beauty of what they saw, and from their inspiration sprang the modern popularity of the Alpine region.
		The Alps extend north from the subtropical Mediterranean coast near Nice, Fr., to Lake Geneva before trending east–northeast to Vienna (at the Vienna Woods).
		From the French-Italian border region near the Mediterranean Sea, the Alps curve north and northeast as far as Vienna, Austria, forming a giant mountain spine that divides the central part of Western Europe into northern and southern portions.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-34387?tocId=34387 (921 words)

	Alps in the websearch2k directory
		Fly to the Alps with Thomsonfly.com - Low fare flights to Europe from Doncaster, Bournemouth and Coventry Airports.
		Alps - Search 1000’s of French self-catering properties in our database of gites, cottages, villas, mobile homes and find your exact match.
		Alps - Compare Prices - The NexTag UK comparison shopping guide has prices including shipping for products from thousands of sellers.
	www.websearch2k.com /alps.html (239 words)

	Tourists' heavy Alpine toll in the Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Alpine share of global tourism is reckoned to be about 10%, or 120 million visitors a year.
		About 10% of the Alpine region is in protected areas, but people are completely excluded from less than 1%.
		He says the Alps are "probably the world's most saturated tourist region, as well as being perhaps the most fragile ecosystem".
	www.creativeresistance.ca /awareness01/2001-aug30-tourist's-heavy-alpine-toll-alex-kirby-bbc-news.htm (531 words)

	CNN.com - Bid to find flood survivors in Alps region - October 16, 2000
		Among the victims were a seven-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy who died in the Val d'Aosta and Piedmont regions.
		Meanwhile, rescue workers saved 50 inhabitants in the Valle d'Aosta region in the early hours of Monday after they took refuge on the roofs of their houses, according to local news reports.
		The devastation is the result of more than 60 centimetres (24 inches) of rain falling in two days in the Alpine region around France, Italy and Switzerland.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/10/16/weather.swiss (564 words)

	Alps Hiking Tour - Alpine Sampler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On Ryder -Walker's ten day sampler, we visit three of the most spectacular and distinctive regions of the Alps-- the Mont Blanc region, the Jungfrau region, and the Italian Dolomites.
		Accommodations are superb first class inns featuring the unique charms of each alpine region, from an old world French hotel with haute cuisine, to a chalet style inn featuring world famous Swiss hospitality, to a Tyrolean inn filled with hand painted antiques.
		We will transfer by van to the bustling alpine village of Grindelwald set in rolling green meadows beneath the glaciated peaks of the Bernese Alps.
	www.ryderwalker.com /alpine_sampler.html (473 words)

	Parks Victoria: Alpine National Park page
		The Alpine National Park is one of the eight Australian Alps national parks that are managed co-operatively to ensure that Australia's mainland alpine and sub-alpine environments are protected consistently and that policies and guidelines across State and territory borders are compatible.
		You can experience this history by visiting the cattlemen's huts dotted along the high plains or the ruins of Wonnangatta Station (home of the pioneer Bryce family for many years) Wallaces Hut near Falls Creek, built in 1889, is one of the oldest surviving huts in the area.
		Mature Alpine Ash forests are common as you go up the mountains, and Snow Gums are the predominant eucalypts in the woodlands around the snowline.
	www.parkweb.vic.gov.au /1park_display.cfm?park=41 (1525 words)

	ALPINE COUNTY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY RESEARCH
		Aptly named Alpine County bestrides the crest and the eastern slopes of the "California Alps", the Sierra Nevada.
		Alpine has the lowest population of any county in the state.
		Region of Alpine County" by W. Turrentine Jackson, 1964.
	www.cagenweb.com /alpine (512 words)

	Alpine Valleys Wine Region
		Like the nearby King Valley region, this region has a variety of climates from the relatively warm valley floors to quite cold areas further up the slopes.
		As the name suggests the valleys are part of the Australian Alps and are close to the ski resorts of Mt Hotham, Mt Buffalo and Falls Creek.
		The region has an Italian influence dated from when the township of Myrtleford was the centre of a tobacco growing area.
	www.vinodiversity.com /alpine-valleys-wine.html (541 words)

	DestiNet: Alpine region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The International Commission for the Protection of the Alps CIPRA works for sustainable development in the Alps.
		It also supports the preservation of Alpine natural and cultural heritage, the maintenance of regional diversity, and problem-solving in the Alpine region across national borders.
		Alliance in the Alps - a network comprising about 160 local authorities and covering the whole of the Alpine region, from France to Slovenia
	destinet.ewindows.eu.org /countries/ALP (92 words)

	chalet in french alps, snowboarding french alps and holidays french alps - Totally Alpine
		Our enjoyment of holidays in France has led us to this lovely region, which is a great base for holidays at any time of year, for families and groups of friends.
		Activities change with the seasons, but the friendly alpine atmosphere remains the same.
		Totally Alpine prides itself on the personal touches, call Sheila and she will help you to organise what you want from your holiday in any way she can.
	www.totallyalpine.com (258 words)

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