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  THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM AND DEGLACIATION OF THE KRKONOSE MOUNTAINS, CZECH REPUBLIC: EVIDENCE OF ASYNCHRONAEITY WITH ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The location of the Krkonose (Giant) Mountains of the Czech Republic/Polish borders is highly significant, lying in the corridor between the Scandinavian ice sheet and the Alpine ice field, and the first significant mountain belt beyond the limits of the Scandinavian ice sheet during the LGM.
Thus, the Krkonose may preserve a unique record of glaciation and palaeoclimate for this period, reflecting climate changes that are perhaps out of phase with the broader NW European transition.
We by evaluating the evidence from the Krkonose and nearby regions in the context of regional climatic patterns during, and subsequent to the LGM.
gsa.confex.com /gsa/inqu/finalprogram/abstract_54327.htm   (465 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Krkonose (Czech Republic) References [acquired 1994 July] Andel P. 1988: Bioindication of air pollution impact in the Krkonose Mts.
Fellner R. 1986: The destruction of ectomycorrhizal conditions at a timber-line in imission areas of the Krkonose Mts.
Malkova J. 1992: Monitoring of the antropic influences in mountain ridge of eastern Krkonose Mts.
www.mabnetamericas.org /brprogram/Reserves/Czech/krkonose/krkbibli.txt   (1709 words)

  
 VRCHLABI
The Krkonose and adjacent areas have always been rich in gems and ores.
Another interesting sights are St. Vavrinec's decanal church, Marian plague column, St. Ann's group of sculptures from the 17th century, folk architecture represented by the 17th century houses in the square of Peace, the bridge over the river Elbe and many others.
The Krkonose museum's collections, archives and a library are also worth visiting.
mesta.obce.cz /vrchlabi/english.htm   (523 words)

  
 SummitPost.org - Snezka Climbing Information
Snezka (Sniezka, Schneekoppe, Snowhill) is the highest mountain in the Czech Republic and in the Krkonose mountains (Giant Mountains).
Krkonose belong to a larger geological system, which reaches to the United Kingdom, where it forms the Snowdonia with its highest summit Snowdon.
Since 1992, Krkonose are in the UNESCO list of biosphere reserves.
www.bettercamper.com /show/mountain_link.pl/mountain_id/1830   (861 words)

  
 Andre van der Hoeven - Krkonose!!!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Krkonose is a National Park in the Northern part of Czech Republic which is very mountainious.
We were in the Krkonose for two days, staying in the beautiful town called Spindleruv Mlyn (Computer Generated Panoramic view).
It's only a pitty that the Krkonose area is under constant danger because of the large amounts of sulphur being put into the air by surrounding industries.
www.deos.tudelft.nl /~andre/old/krknose.htm   (288 words)

  
 Vacation rental Sudeten Mountains, Pension Sudeten Mountains, East Bohemia (Czech Republic) - Pension Pus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Krkonose is the only range of mountains in the Czech Republic whose parts possess the greatest mountain characteristics.
The krkonose is approximately 40 km in length and 20 km in width.
When planning your cycling trips in the Krkonose, we would recommend you to consider the length and the physical workload of the chosen route as well as the weather forecast very carefully and to check your bicycle properly before going.
www.vacation-apartments.com /2609.htm   (636 words)

  
 adriatica.net > Guide > Czech Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Spindleruv Mlyn lies in the picturesque Laba River valley in Krkonose Massif and was first mentioned in the 15th century.
The town was named after the miller Spindler, whose house used to be a gathering place for local miners in the 18th century.
Krkonose, the highest mountain range in the Czech Republic, was of interest to herbalists, hunters, miners and silver diggers back in the 16th century.
www.adriatica.net /ceska/mjesto_en__4j4v4k4li3j3p3n3n3oh5j4p5k4li3ph4t4qiff8q7g6p6u6k6r6l7ifffp7m2g4t6rffft6uh4t4q5ki2v6j6l7j6s6h2v7k6l7o7k6v7m6p2v5j4s4p2t5j5g4p4u4k4r4l5i4v5m2u6o7k6t__.htm   (385 words)

  
 Czech Out Ski Resorts in the Czech Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Also in the Krkonose Mountains, the resort at Spindleruv Mlyn (www.mestospindleruvmlyn.cz, www.skiarealspindl.cz) has 25 km of downhill runs and more than 100 km of cross-country trails.
The main Krkonose cross-country route is unique in Europe in providing skiers with more than 520 kilometers of trails (of which 69 km form an approved competition standard course).
Harrachov (www.skiareal.com, www.harrachov.cz) with a number of downhill and cross country runs is most famous for its complete set of eight ski jumps, ranging from the smallest right up to a mammoth jump enabling jumpers to glide over two hundred meters, facilities which few other resorts can boast.
www.firsttracksonline.com /news/stories/112722366465270.shtm   (1616 words)

  
 The Environment - Vrchlabi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is a good base for trips into interesting areas in the foot-hills of the Krkonose Mts.: Trutnov, Hostinne, Dvur Kralove, Baroque Kuks, Nova Paka and the rocks of Adrspach and Prachov.
The seat of the administration of KrkonoSe National Park and this organization's facilities (main Information Center, the Krkonose Museum) is also located here.
The establishment and development of a tiny settlement probably founded in the times of colonization of the foot-hills in the 13th century was connected with mining of iron ore and valuable metals (Labska gorge, Herlikovice and others).
www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Cabana/9135/omgeving/omge_2040_uk.htm   (315 words)

  
 ABAKA
The Krkonose lie on the Czech-Polish border over a lenghth of 36 km with two-thirds in the Czech Republic.
Distance to the spa promenade and the city centre is approximately 800 m.
The Mountain Hotel Flora is one of the biggest and nicest hotels in the tourist resort of Dolní Mísecky (the Lower Mísecky) in the Giant Mountains (Krkonose) Natural Park.
www.abaka.com /Czech/Mountains_dalsi.html   (673 words)

  
 Travel guide - Janske Lazne Spa. E-travel.cz - accommodation in hotels and apartments in Prague and the Czech Republic.
Janske Lazne is a recreational centre and spa in the Krkonose mountains, 15 km northwest of Trutnov.
Janske Lazne is an important winter sports centre in the Krkonose Mountains with a tobogganing course, ski-jump, skiing area and cable lifts and cable ways.
Considered by many local people to be one of the prettiest towns in Krkonose with the spa building and the colonnade facing each other over a delightful park with a beautiful rose garden.
guide.travel.cz /120   (489 words)

  
 "Czech Republic" -Mtn-Forum On-Line Library Document
An estimate of the number of visitors to Krkonose National Park is 8 million per year.
The Krkonose and Sumava Biosphere Reserves are taking part in a project financed by the Global Environmental Facility, through the World Bank.
The main objective of the project is to develop effective management techniques and model conservation programmes that would effectively address increasing threats, and allow control of the number of visitors.
www.mtnforum.org /resources/library/czech97a.htm   (327 words)

  
 Czech Republic Tours
Transfer to the Krkonose mountains, accommodation in a mountain lodge.
Krkonose are not only the highest mountains of the Czech Republic but also the oldest mountain formation in the region, their rugged valleys and steep slopes carved by ancient glaciers.
Aside the visit to the Krkonose mountains, you'll also tour other remarkable nature conservation areas in the region, namely the Broumov Walls and the Sandstone Rocks of the Adrspach-Teplice.
footloosetravelguides.com /czechtours/cze9.htm   (566 words)

  
 SKIING
Concerning winter sports the Krkonose mountains offer a wide spectrum of facilities - cross-country paths as well as downhill slopes for beginners and advanced together with other facilities, including ski schools.
The famous World Cup in skiing as well as other ski competitions are held in Krkonose every year.
Spindleruv Mlyn is situated in the heart of Krkonose's National Park and lies on the banks of river Labe (largest river in Czech republic and rises in Krkonose).
www.atypus.cz /skiing.htm   (1066 words)

  
 Krkonose hotels and pensions and other accommodation in North Bohemia
Krkonose hotels and pensions and other accommodation in North Bohemia
The Krkonose National Park, with its beautiful nature and spectacular scenery, is a popular tourist destination in the Czech Republic.
There is the possibility of a wide range of sporting activities, such as hiking, mountain biking, and of course skiing in the winter season.
www.heartofeurope.co.uk /krkonose.htm   (76 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Management Constraints The greatest threat to the survival of the park is air pollution.
Following a recent study on air pollution effects on national parks in Central Europe, this park was shown to be the most seriously pollution damaged protected natural area.
Schwarz, O. Results of average daily concentrations of sulfid compounds in the Krkonose mountains.
www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0553v.htm   (428 words)

  
 AIG-6 Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Several 5-km-long ice tongues reached the southern valleys of the Krkonose Mts., forming glacial cirques in valley heads.
Several mining operations of local importance are known from the 1960s and 1970s (uranium, copper, tungsten, iron and lead ores, fluorite).
Also in the Krkonose Mts., one of the pioneering oxygen-18 studies was performed in the 1970s.
www.aig6.cz /trips.htm   (2899 words)

  
 Vrchlabi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Its position in the middle of the mountain range Krkonose makes Vrchlabi a tourist gateway to the kingdom of mysterious Krakonos - a legendary lord and guardian of Krkonose.
The most popular Krkonose's holiday resort is Spindleruv Mlyn.
It offers a wide range of summer and winter activities, three chair lifts, 18 ski lifts, down-hill and cross-country skiing tracks, tourist paths, tracks for mountain cycling, paragliding and many other opportunities to spend spare time.
mesta.obce.cz /vrchlabi/e_krkonose.htm   (202 words)

  
 Travel guide - Krkonose Mountains. E-travel.cz - accommodation in hotels and apartments in Prague and the Czech ...
Estimates suggest that as much as 25% of them have been damaged, grotesquely, by acid rain, due to massive industrialization in northern Bohemia and throughout central Europe.
The steep flanks of the Krkonose (the Giant Mountains), forming the border between Poland and the Czech Republic, fall sharply into the interior.
The Krkonose Mountains are a unique mountain region bordered between the Czech Republic and Poland.
guide.travel.cz /245   (456 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Sudetes Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The highest mountain is Snezka in Krkonose Mountains...
The highest mountain is Snezka in Krkonose Mountains on the Czech-Polish border.
Especially Krkonose Mountains are facing growing tourism for winter sports during the past ten years.
www.ipedia.com /sudetes.html   (214 words)

  
 CC:INFO/AIJ: FOREST REHABILITATION IN KRKONOSE AND SUMAVA NATIONAL PARKS
The Giant Mountains (Krkonose) lie in the centre of the so-called Black Triangle.
The great increase in acidifying deposits in the period 1950 to 1990 resulted in large scale death or morbidity of trees in this area on the borders of the Czech Republic, Poland and the former DDR.
In the second contract term of the reforestation project in Krkonose the initial recommendations resulting from the research carried out by the Department of Physical Geography of the University of Amsterdam, and the Opoçno Forestry Research Station have been implemented.
unfccc.int /kyoto_mechanisms/aij/activities_implemented_jointly/items/1976txt.php   (2780 words)

  
 Vakantiehuis Marc & Eva
The building is nowadays a home of the museum of the Krkonose (with an exhibition on history of skiing in the Krkonose).
The building is a property of the Museum of the Lower Krkonose Surroundings Region at present.
Four paintings on the walls depict the hunts of the last bears in the Krkonose in the period from 1665 to 1726.
www.marceneva.com /index.php?page=info_eng   (4873 words)

  
 World Walks - The Czech Republic - Prague and the Giant Mountains
The Krkonoše range stretches 40km into Bohemian territory, creating a natural border between the Czech Republic and Poland, and is the Czech Republic´s highest mountain range.
INCLUDED: 7 nights accommodation (2 nights in three star hotel in Prague - 5 nights in Krkonose in traditional hotels - all rooms with private bathroom), transfer to Krkonose, 7 breakfasts, 5 dinners (in Krkonose), lunch at Karlstejn Castle, route instructions and maps, transfers as mentioned in the programme, emergency back up.
This mountain town in the heart of the Krkonose National Park is built on the banks of the River Labe - the largest river in the Czech Republic.
www.worldwalks.com /krkonose.htm   (845 words)

  
 Skiing the Krkonose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A picturesque, and sort of frustrating drive takes us to the mountain resort of Spindleruv Mlyn in the Krkonose mountains bordering Poland.
The road is dotted with small towns and insensitively placed communist era factories.
Back in Berlin in time for dinner, we ate at a stylish Egyptian restaurant, and prepared for an early morning departure and a long trip home.
www.lynnerutter.com /life/krk.html   (493 words)

  
 CC:INFO/AIJ: FOREST REHABILITATION IN KRKONOSE AND SUMAVA NATIONAL PARKS
The SBSTA notes that the uniform reporting format could possibly require revision in the light of experience gained and methodological work conducted under the pilot phase.
The Giant Mountains (Krkonose) lie in the centre of the so-called Black Tringle.
Under the project extensive research has been carried out to the ecology of the forests and the impact of the acidifying emmissions.
unfccc.int /kyoto_mechanisms/aij/activities_implemented_jointly/items/1729.php   (2797 words)

  
 Mountain Men Anonymous - Krkonose - Stylus Magazine
rriving at a time when the Mogwai branch of the post-rock genre is ossified beyond measure, Mountain Men Anonymous’ second album Krkonose does little to stretch or expand the limits of the music that it so carefully apes.
What this trio from Cardiff does, however, is add a spot of piano, organ and a variety of other influences to the pot.
As such, Krkonose is, at the very least, a far more interesting release than many of its kind.
www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=2007   (453 words)

  
 Czech Photo Albums :: Northern Bohemia :: Krkonose Mountains :: Karlovy Vary
Northern Bohemia is famous for the Krkonose Mountains and some of the best ski resorts in the Czech Republic.
There is already quite a bit of foreign investment money in these towns.
The ski town of Spindleruv Mlyn at night in the Krkonose Mountains.
www.czechpoint101.com /czechphotos_northbohemia.html   (259 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Krkonose, Central Europe, Central Europe (Central European Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Krkonose, Central Europe, Central Europe (Central European Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
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The Labe (Elbe) River rises in the Krkonose.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Krkonose.html   (179 words)

  
 Hradec Kralove   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The entire area of Krkonose is protected and was declared the Krkonose National Park in 1963.
Ore had been mined there previously and many glassworks were built in the range's foothills.
The town features a Baroque church built in 1713 and wooden houses with verandas.
archiv.radio.cz /mapa/showregion.phtml?cislo=7   (311 words)

  
 Vacation rental Sudeten Mountains, Vacation House Sudeten Mountains, East Bohemia (Czech Republic) - Vacation House ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Walking * A splendid landscape, of which the mountains invite you for an exciting walking tour.
The services provided to the visitors: lending office of ski equipments, ski school, parking place, refreshment, big possibilities of accommodation.
The easternest part of National park in Krkonose.
www.vacation-apartments.com /2605.htm   (2401 words)

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