Finsteraarhorn
The Finsteraarhorn is a mountain lying on the border between the cantons of Bern and Valais. It is the highest mountain of the Bernese Alps and the most prominent peak of Switzerland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Agassizhorn and Studerhorn.
Agassizhorn
Peak
Photo: Fiesch, Public domain.
The Agassizhorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. It lies just north-west of the Finsteraarhorn, the main summit of the range. The Agassizhorn is the tripoint between the valleys of the Lower Grindelwald Glacier, the Unteraar Glacier and the Fiescher Glacier.
Studerhorn
Peak
Photo: Terra3, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Studerhorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Bern and Valais. It lies between the Finsteraarhorn and the Oberaarhorn, on the ridge separating the basins of the Unteraar Glacier and the Fiescher Glacier.
Nasse Strahlegg
Peak
The Nasse Strahlegg is a peak of the Bernese Alps, located east of the Finsteraarjoch in the canton of Bern. It is the culminating point of the small range descending from the south-west ridge of the Lauteraarhorn, between the valleys of the Lower Grindelwald Glacier and the Unteraar Glacier.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch.
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch is a protected area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site between the Valais and the Bernese Highlands in the Swiss Alps. It was known as Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn until its name was changed in 2007.
Finsteraarhorn
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 4,273 metres
- Description: highest mountain of the Bernese Alps at the border of Berne and Valais in Switzerland
- Categories: mountain, main peak, four-thousander, ultra-prominent peak, and landform
- Location: Guttannen, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.53735° or 46° 32′ 14″ northLongitude
8.12611° or 8° 7′ 34″ eastElevation
4,273 metres (14,019 feet)Open location code
8FRCG4PG+WCOpenStreetMap ID
node 653902561OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Finsteraarhorn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فينستيرارون”
- Armenian: “Ֆինստերանհորն”
- Basque: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Belarusian: “Гара Фінстэраргорн”
- Belarusian: “Фінстэрааргорн”
- Bosnian: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Bulgarian: “Финстераархорн”
- Bulgarian: “Финстерархорн”
- Catalan: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Cebuano: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Chinese: “芬斯特拉峰”
- Czech: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Dutch: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل فينستيرارون”
- Esperanto: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Estonian: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Finnish: “Finsteraarhorn”
- French: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Galician: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Georgian: “ფინსტერაარჰორნი”
- German: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Hebrew: “פינסטרארהורן”
- Hungarian: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Italian: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Japanese: “フィンシュターアールホルン”
- Japanese: “フィンシュテラールホルン”
- Japanese: “フィンスターアールホルン”
- Japanese: “フィンステラーホルン山”
- Korean: “핀스터아어호른”
- Ladin: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Lithuanian: “Finsterarhornas”
- Luxembourgish: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Macedonian: “Финстерархорн”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Norwegian: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Finsteraarhorn”
- Ossetian: “Финстераархорн”
- Ossetian: “Финстерархорн”
- Persian: “فینشترارهورن”
- Polish: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Portuguese: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Romanian: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Russian: “Финстераархорн”
- Russian: “Финстерархорн”
- Slovak: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Slovenian: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Spanish: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Swahili: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Swedish: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Turkish: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Ukrainian: “Фінстерааргорн”
- Venetian: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Welsh: “Finsteraarhorn”
- Western Panjabi: “فنسٹرآرہارن”
- “Finsteraarhorn”
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