Eiger

The Eiger is a 3,967-metre mountain of the , overlooking and in the of , just north of the main watershed and border with .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Eigerwand railway station and Eismeer railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Patrick Nouhailler’s…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eigerwand is a disused underground railway station in the in the , . It is on the Jungfrau railway, which runs to the from .

Railway stop
Photo: GPSLeo, CC0.
is an underground railway station bored into the mountain Eiger on the Jungfrau Railway, which runs to the from .

Glacier
Photo: Patrick.Lie, Public domain.
is a glacier.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grindelwald and Wengen.

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is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland. It's in the valley from Interlaken up to the pass of Grosse Scheidegg, a traditional cattle trail, and in Old High German grintil walt meant "barrier forest".

Photo: Nikolai Karaneschev, CC BY 3.0.
is an Alpine resort in the of Switzerland. It's at 1,274 m above sea level, reached by cog railway and with no vehicle access, on the route up towards the Eiger and Jungfrau.

Village
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a village and a municipality in the in the canton of Bern in . is situated 8 km northwest of Eiger.

Eiger

Latitude
46.57763° or 46° 34′ 40″ north
Longitude
8.00547° or 8° 0′ 20″ east
Elevation
3,967 metres (13,015 feet)
Open location code
8FRCH2H4+35
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31664302
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
2660928
Wiki­data ID
Q4425
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Eiger” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Eiger”
  • Arabic: “إيجر”
  • Arabic: “إيغير”
  • Arabic: “يغير”
  • Armenian: “Այգեր”
  • Armenian: “Էյգեր”
  • Basque: “Eiger”
  • Belarusian: “Айгер”
  • Bulgarian: “Айгер”
  • Catalan: “Eiger”
  • Cebuano: “Eiger (bukid sa Swisa)”
  • Cebuano: “Eiger”
  • Chinese: “艾格尔峰”
  • Chinese: “艾格峰”
  • Cornish: “Eiger”
  • Czech: “Eiger”
  • Danish: “Eiger”
  • Dutch: “Eiger”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ايجير”
  • Esperanto: “Eiger”
  • Estonian: “Eiger”
  • Finnish: “Eiger”
  • French: “Eiger”
  • German: “Eiger”
  • Greek: “Άιγκερ”
  • Hebrew: “אייגר”
  • Hungarian: “Eiger”
  • Indonesian: “Eiger”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Eiger”
  • Italian: “Eiger”
  • Japanese: “アイガー”
  • Korean: “아이거산”
  • Ladin: “Eiger”
  • Latin: “Eiger”
  • Lithuanian: “Eigeris”
  • Luxembourgish: “Eiger”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eiger”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eiger”
  • Norwegian: “Eiger”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Eiger”
  • Persian: “ایگر”
  • Polish: “Eiger”
  • Portuguese: “Eiger”
  • Romanian: “Eiger”
  • Romansh: “Eiger”
  • Russian: “Айгер”
  • Russian: “гора Айгер”
  • Russian: “Эйгер”
  • Sicilian: “Eiger”
  • Slovak: “Eiger”
  • Slovenian: “Eiger”
  • Spanish: “Eiger”
  • Swahili: “Eiger”
  • Swedish: “Eiger”
  • Swiss German: “Eiger”
  • Thai: “เขาไอเกอร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Eiger”
  • Turkish: “Eiger Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Айгер”
  • Venetian: “Eiger”
  • Vietnamese: “Eiger”
  • Welsh: “Eiger”
  • Western Frisian: “Eiger”
  • Western Panjabi: “آیگر”
  • “nena ma Aka”

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