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  Peaks and passes of the Alps
The Alps form a great mountain range, consisting of a main chain, with ramifications, and of several parallel minor chains.
They thus form a single connected whole as contrasted with the plains at their base, and nature has made no breaks therein, save at the spots where they sink to comparatively low depressions or passes.
But for the sake of practical convenience it has long been usual to select certain of the best marked of these passes to serve as limits within the range, whether to distinguish several great divisions from each other, or to further break up each of these great divisions into smaller groups.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/p/pe/peaks_and_passes_of_the_alps.html   (240 words)

  
 Central Eastern Alps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Central Eastern Alps are the core ranges of the Eastern Alps with the highest peaks, located between the Northern Limestone Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps, from which they differ in geological composition.
They extend from the Bernina Range in Graubünden in the west as far as to the lower promontories east of the Mura such as the Hochwechsel in Styria in the east.
Ranges of the Central Eastern Alps (from East to West):
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ortler,_Oetzthal_and_Stubai_Ranges   (132 words)

  
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Stubaier Alpen) is a minor mountain range in the central Alps of Europe.
It is located southwest of Innsbruck, Austria, and several summits of the range form part of Austria's border with Italy.
The range is bounded by the Inn River valley to the north, the Sill River valley (Wipptal) and the Brenner Pass to the east, and the Ötztal and Timmelsjoch to the west, and to the south by tributaries of the Passirio River and Eisack river.
www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Stubai_Alps   (123 words)

  
 ALPS - Online Information article about ALPS
Thus there are lofty ranges parallel to that which forms the main watershed.
Brenner Pass along the snowy crest of the Oetzthal and Stubai Alps, the loftiest point on it being the Weisskugel (12,291 ft., Oetzthal), for the highest summits both of the Oetzthal and of the Stubai districts, the Wildspitze (12,382 ft.) and the Zuckerhutl (11,520 ft.) stand a little to the north.
In the Eastern Alps the longest glacier is the Pasterze (rather over 6; m.), which is not near the true main watershed, though it, clings to the slope of the Greater Tauern range, east of the Dreiherrenspitze.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /ALM_ANC/ALPS.html   (6815 words)

  
 Alps
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.
Swiss Alps, including North-Eastern Swiss Alps - Bernese Oberland - Lepontine Alps - Todi Range - Bernina Alps - Albula Range - Silvretta and Rätikon Ranges
The Alps are a range of mountains located within the Moon's Mare Imbrium, formed in the impact that created the Imbrium Basin.
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