Nordend
Nordend is a northern peak of the Monte Rosa Massif. Nordend is the fourth highest peak of the massif, after the Dufourspitze, the Dunantspitze and the Grenzgipfel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Francofranco56, Public domain.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 4,608 metres
- Description: subpeak of Dufourspitze in the Pennine Alps
- Also known as: “Nordendspitze”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dufourspitze and Dunantspitze.
Dufourspitze
Peak
Photo: TobiasBender, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Dufourspitze is the highest peak of Monte Rosa, an ice-covered mountain massif in the Alps. Dufourspitze is the highest mountain of both Switzerland and the Pennine Alps and is also the second-highest mountain of the Alps and Western Europe, after Mont Blanc.
Dunantspitze
Peak
Photo: Herzi Pinki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Dunantspitze, formerly called Ostspitze, is a peak of the Monte Rosa Massif in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It is the second highest peak of the massif, after the Dufourspitze and the second highest summit in Switzerland, but its prominence is only about 15 metres.
Grenzgipfel
Peak
Photo: TobiasBender, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Grenzgipfel is a peak of Monte Rosa Massif, located on the border between Italy and Switzerland. The Grenzgipfel is the highest summit on the Italian side of the Monte Rosa massif and the highest point of the entire border between Italy and Switzerland; it is also the culminating point of the Italian region of Piedmont and of the Ticino river drainage basin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quarazza and Motta.
Quarazza
Hamlet
Photo: BelPatty86, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Quarazza is a hamlet, which is situated 9 km east of Nordend.
Motta
Hamlet
Photo: BelPatty86, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Motta is a hamlet, which is situated 9 km east of Nordend.
Nordend
- Categories: subpeak, four-thousander, and landform
- Location: Macugnaga, Verbania, Piedmont, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
45.94199° or 45° 56′ 31″ northLongitude
7.86993° or 7° 52′ 12″ eastElevation
4,608 metres (15,118 feet)Open location code
8FQ9WVR9+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1243390246OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Nordend” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Նորդենդ”
- Catalan: “Nordend”
- Cebuano: “Punta Nordend”
- Chinese: “北端峰”
- Czech: “Nordend”
- Dutch: “Nordend”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل نورديند”
- Esperanto: “Nordend”
- Finnish: “Nordend”
- French: “Nordend”
- Georgian: “ნორდენდი”
- German: “Nordend”
- Italian: “Punta Nordend”
- Japanese: “ノルトエント”
- Japanese: “プンタ・ノルデン”
- Ladin: “Nordend”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nordend”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nordend”
- Polish: “Nordend”
- Portuguese: “Nordend”
- Russian: “Норденд”
- Slovenian: “Nordend”
- Spanish: “Punta Nordend”
- Swahili: “Nordend”
- Swedish: “Nordend”
- Venetian: “Ponta Nordend”
- Western Panjabi: “نورڈینڈ”
- “nena ma Noten”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nordend”. Photo: Francofranco56, Public domain.