Oberalpsee
Oberalpsee is a reservoir just below Oberalp Pass on the side of the Canton of Uri in Switzerland. Oberalpsee has an elevation of 2,021 metres.Photo: Chin tin tin, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oberalp Pass and Oberalppass railway station.
Oberalp Pass
Mountain saddle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oberalp Pass is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting the cantons of Graubünden and Uri between Disentis/Mustér and Andermatt.
Oberalppass railway station
Railway station
Photo: Whgler, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oberalppass railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Andermatt, in the Swiss canton of Uri. It is an intermediate stop on the 1,000 mm gauge Furka Oberalp line of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tschamut and Tujetsch.
Tujetsch
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Tujetsch is a municipality in the Surselva Region in the canton of the Grisons in Switzerland. It is the westernmost municipality of the canton, connected to Urseren by the Oberalp Pass.
Göschenen
Village
Photo: Jan K, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Göschenen is a village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It sits at the northern end of the Gotthard tunnel. The Göschenen riots saw Urner troops opening fire on Italian miners demonstrating for better working conditions and wages on the tunnel's construction site. Göschenen is situated 6 km west of Oberalpsee.
Oberalpsee
- Type: Body of water
- Description: lake in Uri, Switzerland
- Category: lake
- Location: Canton of Uri, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.65992° or 46° 39′ 36″ northLongitude
8.6618° or 8° 39′ 43″ eastElevation
2,021 metres (6,631 feet)Open location code
8FRCMM56+XPOpenStreetMap ID
way 28157201OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Oberalpsee” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Обералпсе”
- Cebuano: “Oberalpsee”
- Chinese: “上阿爾普湖”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره اوبيرالپسى”
- Georgian: “ობერალპზეე”
- German: “Oberalpsee”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oberalpsee”
- Portuguese: “Lago Oberalpsee”
- Swedish: “Oberalpsee”
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Notable Places Nearby
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