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  natureandco.com - The Southern Alps
The northern Southern Alps, comprising the mountains from Blenheim and the Wairau River (including Nelson Lakes National Park) to Lewis Pass.
The eastern Southern Alps, comprising all ranges east of the axial zone from Lewis Pass in the north to Lake Hawea.
The axial Southern Alps, along the main divide, reaching its greatest heights from Arthur's Pass to Haast Pass.
www.natureandco.co.nz /land_and_wildlife/landforms/mountains/sthn-alps.php3   (520 words)

  
 Southern Alps : timeshare Southern Alps, timeshare in Auron Southern Alps
Southern Alps : timeshare Southern Alps, timeshare in Auron Southern Alps
Situated in the heart of this famous Southern Alps resort, the Nevada holiday residence has sun-filled apartments in both summer and winter.
In the winter season, you can ski directly from the residence to the peaks (2,450 m), enjoying exceptional levels of sunshine that are the envy of even the largest Alpine resorts.
www.french-riviera-timeshare.com /en_auron.php   (94 words)

  
 Southern Alps > New Zealand
The magical Southern Alps is a wonderland filled with dramatic scenery and excitement for all.
The Southern Alps is home to four of New Zealand's prescious National Parks - Arthurs' Pass, Aoraki/Mt Cook, Westland Tai Poutini and Mt Aspiring.
Lake Tekapo is a remarkable turquoise coloured lake and is surrounded by the mountainous drama of the Southern Alps.
www.newzealand.com /travel/about-nz/features/southern-alps-feature/southern-alps.cfm   (853 words)

  
 Three-dimensional lithospheric structure below the New Zealand Southern Alps
The oblique collision of these plates resulted in the uplift of the Southern Alps during the past 5–7 m.y.
Also, a high-velocity anomaly (3–5%) corresponding to the Hikurangi subduction zone lies to the northeast of the Southern Alps anomaly, and low-velocity anomalies (−3%) underlying parts of northwestern and southern South Island may be signatures of late Tertiary extension and volcanism.
The Southern Alps uppermost mantle velocity anomalies are most simply explained by lithospheric thickening below the center of convergence accompanied by thinning and asthenospheric upwelling adjacent to the region of convergence.
www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2002/2001JB000182.shtml   (316 words)

  
 Southern Alps travel guide
Southern Alps travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and what to see
Lyon, the Rhone valley and the French Alps
It may come as a surprise that the only Départements with Alpes in their name are actually to be found in Provence!
www.world66.com /europe/france/midi/southern_alps   (122 words)

  
 RENTAL SOUTHERN ALPS > Holiday Rental Southern Alps
The Southern Alps offer a wide range of destinations for your next winter sports holidays, with the resorts of “Alpes de Haute Provence” and “Hautes Alpes”.
In winter, the Southern Alps has a large choice of skiing domains with diverse slides to suit different levels or for those willing to try new winter sports.
Choose your stay in Southern Alps among the nicest ski resorts of France...
www.france-holiday-express.com /france-holiday-region/southern-alps/14.html   (193 words)

  
 Southern Alps travel guide - Wikitravel
The Southern Alps are a range of mountains that run the length of the South Island of New Zealand.
The mountain range have been likened to the Alps of Europe.
Travellers in New Zealand generally, but in the Southern Alps in particular, should be prepared for any type of weather as it is possible to experience four seasons in one day.
www.wikitravel.org /en/Southern_Alps   (329 words)

  
 Fluid generation and pathways beneath an active compressional orogen, the New Zealand Southern Alps, inferred from ...
Forty-one wideband magnetotelluric (MT) soundings were collected in a 150-km-long transect across the Southern Alps of the central South Island of New Zealand, an active compressional orogen.
The average conductivity of this zone in the strike direction appears to be much higher than that required across strike and may represent anisotropy or along-strike conductive strands narrower than the transverse magnetic (cross-strike) mode MT data can resolve.
The deep crustal conductor under the Southern Alps is interpreted to represent mainly a volume of fluids arising from prograde metamorphism within a thickening crust.
www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2002/2001JB000186.shtml   (562 words)

  
 Southern Alps | Our products | NATURAL MUESLI
With Southern Alps, the possibilities are endless and the results will delight anyone with an appetite for pure, natural and delicious food.
and enjoy a taste experience that's unique to the Southern Alps selection.
Southern Alps, Unit 14 West Yoke Farm, Michaels Lane, Ash, Nr.
www.southern-alps.co.uk /index.php?page=18   (131 words)

  
 Southern Alps | Our company
What started out as a homemade fruit snack and muesli for the Garners is becoming one of the most popular products among conscious consumers around the world.
From the very first sales in London's Borough market, Southern Alps can now be found in a growing number of stores, delis or coffee shops in a widening number of countries.
And Lotte Garner's curiosity and vision is gradually turned into a living dream.
www.southern-alps.co.uk /index.php?page=3   (109 words)

  
 Holiday Homes - Holiday House, Southern Alps (France)
The Mona Lisa chalets are situated at 150 m.
Superdévoluy is a ski village in the southern Alps with over 100 km.
The résidence is situated in the middle of this ski station, directly at the run.
www.boekingsservice.nl /vakantiehuis/a/en/fr/zalp/southern-alps/0.html   (187 words)

  
 Southern Alps Guiding
The Southern Alps are a range of remarkable mountains which together form the backbone of the South Island of New Zealand.
Glacier Sea Kayaking and Southern Alps Guiding - Tasman Glacier Skiing are based at the famous Old Mountaineers cafe.
Glacier Sea Kayaking, Southern Alps Guiding & Tasman Glacier Skiing are based in the Aoraki Mt Cook National Park Alpine Village.
www.mtcook.com   (267 words)

  
 Heliskiing and Heliboarding: Wilderness and Methven Heliski - Southern Alps - New Zealand
Heliskiing and Heliboarding: Wilderness and Methven Heliski - Southern Alps - New Zealand
Link here to Australian Daily Telegraph blog on Wilderness Heliskiing, and rumours of the World Heli Challenge coming to Mt Cook...
Two heliskiing operations, New Zealand's highest peaks and the best skiing and snowboarding that Southern Alps has to offer.
www.heliskiing.co.nz   (230 words)

  
 MySpace.com - The Southern Alps - Norway/New Zealand, NO - Folk / Pop / Acoustic - www.myspace.com/thesouthernalps
Silver jews, gillian welch, yo la tengo, the hidden cameras, the tables, chris whitley, the chills, joanna newsom, the polyphonic spree, iron & wine, dave kilgour, king creosote, richmond fontaine, sodastream, old crow medicine show + + +
I want to hear some new songs from The Southern Alps!
Hey The Southern Alps stop by and read our Music Connection Magazine review when you get a chance.
www.myspace.com /thesouthernalps   (552 words)

  
 New Zealand Kayak School - kayaking courses in nz: - Location
Two hours south west of Murchison is Hokitika which has become the base area for harder river runs in the Southern Alps.
Many of these rivers can only be accessed by helicopters, which are the ultimate in shuttle vehicles.
Largely as a result of the numerous deer recovery operations that exist in the Southern Alps, there are many helicopter operations in convenient locations with short shuttle times.
www.nzkayakschool.com /content/view/13/28   (246 words)

  
 Christchurch / Mt. Cook / West Coast - New Zealand Travel Information Network
This pass in the Southern Alps is on the historic Road connecting Canterbury and the West Coast.
Arthur Park (114,500 hectares with Arthur's Pass village is centred in the Southern Alps.
A region that plunges west from the Southern Alps through luxurious rainforests to breathtaking coast.
www.nzti.com /christchurch.htm   (1066 words)

  
 P1386H--Glaciers of New Zealand
Glaciers occur on the North Island on Mount Ruapehu and on the South Island along the crest of the Southern Alps from the Spenser Mountains in the north to southern Fiordland in the south.
Average peak summits range from 1,850 m in Fiordland to 3,000 m in the central Southern Alps (Mount Cook, the highest, reaches 3,764 m) and descend to 2,000 m in the north-central Southern Alps.
Glaciers of the Southern Alps occur either in groups or singly from southern Fiordland in the south to the Spenser Mountains in the north (fig.
pubs.usgs.gov /pp/p1386h/nzealand/nzealand.html   (2459 words)

  
  Regional tectonics: from the Rhine graben to the Po plain, a summary of the tectonic evolution of the Alps and their ...
In the eastern transect the southern Alps form an impressive south vergent foreland fold and thrust belt ("retro-wedge") riding above the Adriatic lower crust, while this same Adriatic lower crust is exposed in the Ivrea zone, situated at the SE end of the central and western transects.
The attribution of a pre-Adamello phase in the Southern Alps (main deformation of Miocene age) to Cretaceous orogenic activity is uncertain, but a precursor of the Insubric line must have been active (separation between the detached crustal flakes of the Austroalpine nappe system from the Adriatic lithosphere which remained intact).
However, the southern margin of the Piemont-Liguria margin represented an active margin, as documented by the accretionary wedge of the schistes lustrées and by the eclogitization of the Sesia unit at around the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary.
pages.unibas.ch /earth/tecto/Members/Schmid/alps/schmid_html/Text_Schmid.html   (5055 words)

  
  The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The term "Southern Alps" generally refers to the entire range, although separate names are given to many of the smaller ranges that form part of it.
The Southern Alps were named by Captain Cook on March 23, 1770, who described their 'prodigious height'.
The mountains that form the Alps continue to be uplifted due to tectonic pressure, causing earthquakes on the Alpine Fault, but are eroded at approximately the same rate.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Southern_Alps   (433 words)

  
 GEO Travel: Alps   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This article describes the delimitation of the Alps as a whole and of subdivisions of the range, follows the course of the main chain of the Alps and discusses the lakes and glaciers found in the region.
The remainder of the southern edge of the Alps is clearly delimited by the basin of the River Po.
The border between the Central Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps is the Periadriatic Seam.
www.geotravel.info /2006/05/alps.html   (2429 words)

  
 Southern Alps - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Southern Alps, mountain range of the South Island, in New Zealand.
Dolomites, mountain range in northern Italy, a subdivision of the Eastern Alps, and part of the South Tirolese Alps, located east of the Adige...
The Dinaric Alps are characterized by massive limestone areas, known particularly for crevices, sink-holes, and caves beneath the plateaux of the...
uk.encarta.msn.com /Southern_Alps.html   (111 words)

  
 SummitPost - Southern Alps -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
The Southern Alps is a mountain range which runs along the western side of the South Island of New Zealand.
The term "Southern Alps" generally refers to the entire range, although separate names are given to many of the smaller ranges that form part of it.
The Southern Alps are served by Christchurch Int'l Airport.
www.summitpost.org /area/range/175979/southern-alps.html   (192 words)

  
 InfoDense - Web - Southern Alps
The Southern Alps are composed of material from the Adriatic or Apulian tectonic...
The eastern Southern Alps, comprising all ranges east of the axial zone from...
Welcome to Southern Alps Air, operating from the lakeside township of Wanaka and...
www.infodense.com /topic?i=Southern%20Alps   (234 words)

  
 Alps travel guide - Wikitravel
The Alps are a range of mountains in Europe caused by uplift in the European Plate as it is impacted by the African Palte moving north; they stretch from France through Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Hungary and into the former Yugoslavia.
The alps are home to some of the largest and most well known ski areas in the world, much like the mountains themselves they can be found across multiple countries in some cases making it possible to ski into another nation.
The Alps have always been popular as a mountaineering and hiking destination, but clearly this is nowhere near as lucrative for the locals, as the tourist invasion during the winter season.
wikitravel.org /en/Alps   (497 words)

  
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The Southern Alps is a mountain range which runs along the western side of the South Island of New Zealand.
The Southern Alps were named by Captain Cook in 1770, when he noted their 'prodigious height'.
Because of its orientation perpendicular to the prevailing westerly winds, it creates excellent wave soaring conditions for glider pilots.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/s/so/southern_alps.html   (97 words)

  
 Southern French Alps
The brooding, icy alps and snowfields of the French Alps, shown a few panels further down, bear little resemblence to the bright, cheerful grey/silver of the Austrian alps, shown here.
Surprise, a similar road in the Alpes Maritimes weaves thru the country north of Castellane.
Do not miss this area in the alps for cycling, because this little visited region not only will cut your eye teeth for the bigger mountains further north, but will allow you to be snooty about just how much about the Alps you actually know.
www.cyclingscholar.com /alps.html   (1592 words)

  
 Alps
The Alps are the dominant range of Europe and one of the top five mountain areas of the world in mountain scenery and climbing challenge.
The Alps are a wide and convoluted crescent of ranges and peaks arcing to the north of the Italian Peninsula, from the Julian Alps of Slovenia (once part of Yugoslavia) on the east to the Maritime Alps of the South of France on the west.
The sport of mountaineering was invented in the Alps, and the variety of peaks and routes that can be climbed is staggering, ranging from easy walk-ups to some of the hardest routes on earth.
www.peakbagger.com /range.aspx?rid=33   (580 words)

  
 Southern Alps   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It forms a natural dividing range along the entire length of the South Island, although the term "Southern Alps" generally does not refer to the entire range and separate names are given to many of the smaller ranges that form part of the Southern Alps.
A large proportion of the range is protected as part of various national parks, notably the Westland National Park and Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park.
The Southern Alps were named by Captain Cook in 1770, who described their 'prodigious height'.
www.casimiro.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/so/southern_alps.html   (258 words)

  
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The high altitude resort of Alpe d’Huez is situated in the southern French Alps.
Alpe d’Huez is renowned for its sunshine record but still boasts good snow conditions throughout the winter season with its high altitude ski area reaching 3330m.
This beautiful region, which is situated in the southern French Alps close to Provence, benefits from over 300 days of sunshine a year making it an ideal base for your holidays all year round.
www.lycos.com /info/alps--southern-alps.html   (475 words)

  
 Alps   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Alps consist of a central domain, which is basically the shortened passive margin of Mesozoic Europe, and a southern domain which was part of the African plate, known as Adria.
Major glaciers coming down from the central Alps formed the lakes, and they accentuate the shape of the river valley, which are clearly deflected by the fault zone in a dextral sense.
The Southern Alps consist mainly of basement rocks of early-Proterozoic age that were deformed and metamorphosed during the Variscan Orogenesis in the Carboniferous.
www.uni-mainz.de /FB/Geo/Geologie/tecto/perth_workshop/alps/alps.html   (333 words)

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