Glocknerwand
The Glocknerwand is a mountain in the Glockner Group in the Austrian Central Alps in the central region of the High Tauern. According to the literature it is 3,721 metres high, but the Austria Federal Office for Metrology and Survey gives its height as 3,722 metres.Photo: DennisPeeters, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grossglockner and Teufelskamp.
Grossglockner
Peak
Photo: DennisPeeters, Public domain.
The Großglockner, or just Glockner, is, at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic, the highest mountain in Austria and highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sonderschutzgebiet Gamsgrube and Oberes Beil.
Sonderschutzgebiet Gamsgrube
Locality
Photo: Raul de Chissota, Public domain.
Sonderschutzgebiet Gamsgrube is a locality, which is situated 4 km east of Glocknerwand.
Oberes Beil
Locality
Photo: Florian Fuchs, CC BY 3.0.
Oberes Beil is a locality, which is situated 4½ km southwest of Glocknerwand.
Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe
Locality
Photo: Papa1234, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe is part of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road. The end point of a cul-de-sac and lookout point is in Austria in the Glockner Group in Carinthia at an altitude of 2,369 m above sea level. Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe is situated 5 km east of Glocknerwand.
Glocknerwand
- Type: Cliff with an elevation of 3,535 metres
- Description: mountain in the Glockner Group at the border Carinthia / East Tyrol
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Glocknerwand” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل جلوكنرواند”
- Cebuano: “Glocknerwand”
- Chinese: “格洛克訥萬德山”
- Dutch: “Glocknerwand”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل جلوكنيرواند”
- French: “Glocknerwand”
- German: “Glocknerwand”
- Italian: “Glocknerwand”
- Ladin: “Glocknerwand”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Glocknerwand”
- Polish: “Glocknerwand”
- Swedish: “Glocknerwand”
- Ukrainian: “Глокнерванд”
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