Mont Blanc Tunnel
The Mont Blanc Tunnel is a highway tunnel between France and Italy, under Mont Blanc in the Alps. It links Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France with Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy, via the French Route Nationale 205 and the Italian Traforo T1, in particular the motorways serving Geneva and Turin.
- Type: Tunnel
- Description: road tunnel connecting France and Italy
- Also known as: “Blanc”, “T1”, and “Tunnel du Mont Blanc”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pointe Lachenal and Aiguille du Midi.
Pointe Lachenal
Peak
Pointe Lachenal is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. It is located above the Glacier du Géant, under the East face of Mont Blanc du Tacul and opposite the Aiguille du Midi.
Aiguille du Midi
Peak
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grand Couloir and Chamonix.
Grand Couloir
Locality
The Grand Couloir is a couloir on the Aiguille du Goûter. At 3,340 metres altitude, this gully has to be traversed on foot to reach the scramble beyond the Tête Rousse Hut up to the Goûter Refuge on the Goûter Route on Mont Blanc. Grand Couloir is situated 6 km west of Mont Blanc Tunnel.
Chamonix
Chamonix is a resort in the Haute-Savoie region of France, bordering Italy, at the foot of Mont Blanc. It's regarded as the birthplace of mountaineering and as one of its capitals.
Entrèves
Hamlet
Mont Blanc Tunnel
- Categories: road tunnel, international tunnel, base tunnel, toll tunnel, and transportation
- Location: France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.86667° or 45° 52′ north
Longitude
6.9° or 6° 54′ east
Elevation
3,354 metres (11,004 feet)
Open location code
8FQ8VW82+M2
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Satellite Map
Discover Mont Blanc Tunnel from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Mont Blanc Tunnel” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mont Blanc-tonnel”
- Arpitan: “Tunèl du mont Blanc”
- Arpitan: “Tunèl du Mont-Blanc”
- Basque: “Mont Blanceko tunela”
- Belarusian: “Манбланскі тунэль”
- Bulgarian: “Монблански тунел”
- Catalan: “Túnel del Mont Blanc”
- Chinese: “勃朗峰隧道”
- Chinese: “白山隧道”
- Chinese: “白朗峰隧道”
- Czech: “Montblancký tunel”
- Czech: “Montblanský tunel”
- Czech: “tunel Mont Blanc”
- Danish: “Mont Blanc-tunnelen”
- Dutch: “Mont Blanctunnel”
- Dutch: “T1”
- Esperanto: “Tunelo de la Blanka Monto”
- Finnish: “Mont Blancin tunneli”
- French: “Tunnel du mont Blanc”
- French: “tunnel du Mont-Blanc”
- French: “Tunnel du Mont-Blanc”
- Galician: “Túnel do Mont Blanc”
- Georgian: “მონბლანის გვირაბი”
- German: “Mont-Blanc-Tunnel”
- German: “Montblanc-Tunnel”
- Hebrew: “מנהרת המון בלאן”
- Hungarian: “Mont Blanc-alagút”
- Ido: “Tunelo sub la Monto Blanka”
- Italian: “traforo del Monte Bianco”
- Italian: “Traforo del Monte Bianco”
- Italian: “Traforo T1”
- Italian: “Tunnel del Monte Bianco”
- Japanese: “モンブラントンネル”
- Korean: “몽블랑 터널”
- Latvian: “Monblāna tunelis”
- Lithuanian: “Monblano tunelis”
- Lombard: “tunnel del Mont Bianch”
- Luxembourgish: “Mont-Blanc-Tunnel”
- Macedonian: “Монблански тунел”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mont Blanc-tunnelen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “MontBlanc-tunnelen”
- Norwegian: “Mont Blanc-tunnelen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tunèl del Mont Blanc”
- Persian: “تونل مونبلان”
- Polish: “Mont Blanc Tunnel”
- Polish: “Tunel du Mont Blanc”
- Polish: “Tunel Mont Blanc”
- Portuguese: “Túnel do Monte Branco”
- Romanian: “Tunelul Mont Blanc”
- Romanian: “Tunelul rutier Mont Blanc”
- Russian: “Монблан”
- Russian: “Монбланский тоннель”
- Russian: “Монбланский туннель”
- Serbian: “Tunel Monblan”
- Serbian: “Тунел Монблан”
- Slovak: “Montblanský tunel”
- Slovak: “Tunel Mont Blanc”
- Slovenian: “Predor pod Mont Blancom”
- Spanish: “túnel de Mont Blanc”
- Spanish: “Túnel de Mont Blanc”
- Spanish: “Túnel del Monte Blanco”
- Swedish: “Mont Blanc-tunneln”
- Swedish: “Mont Blanctunneln”
- Swedish: “Mont-Blanc-tunneln”
- Turkish: “Mont Blanc Tüneli”
- Ukrainian: “Mont Blanc Tunnel”
- Ukrainian: “Traforo del Monte Bianco”
- Ukrainian: “Tunnel du Mont-Blanc”
- Ukrainian: “Монбланський тунель”
- Welsh: “Twnnel Mont Blanc”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Les Pèlerins and Les Favrands.
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