Dufourspitze
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.
- Peak rising to 4,634 metres (15,203 feet)
- …is also known as “Monte Rosa”
- …was formerly known as “Gornerhorn, Schwärzehorn, Höchste Spitze, La più alta cima”
- …is named after Guillaume Henri Dufour
- Description: highest mountain of Switzerland
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Dufourspitze
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Latitude
45.93692° or 45° 56′ 13″ north
Longitude
7.86676° or 7° 52′ 0″ east
Open location code
8FQ9WVP8+QP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = peak
GeoNames ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Dufourspitze” goes by many names.
Dufour-bergpiekAfrikaans
جبل مونتي روزاArabic
دوفورسبيتزArabic
Picu DufourAsturian
Dufour GainaBasque
ДзюфурBelarusian
Пік ДзюфурBelarusian
মন্টি রোজাBengali
ДуфоурспитзеBulgarian
ДюфурBulgarian
DufourspitzeCatalan
DufourspitzeCebuano
杜富尔峰Chinese
DufourspitzeCzech
DufourspitzeDanish
DufourspitzeDutch
جبل مونتى روزاEgyptian Arabic
Dufour-PintoEsperanto
DufourEstonian
Dufouri mäetippEstonian
DufourspitzeFinnish
დიუფურის პიკიGeorgian
دۊفؤرشپيتزهGilaki
דופורשפיץHebrew
DufourspitzeHungarian
Punta DufourHungarian
DufourspitzeIndonesian
DufourspitzeIrish
Punta DufourItalian
プンタ・デュフールJapanese
두포우르슈피츠Korean
몬테로사 산Korean
Piza DufourLadin
Difūra smaileLatvian
Diufūro kalnasLithuanian
Pizz DufourLombard
DufourspëtzLuxembourgish
ДифурMacedonian
ДуфуршпицеMacedonian
Монте РозаMacedonian
DufourspitzeNorwegian
DufourspitzeNorwegian Bokmål
DufourspitzeNorwegian Nynorsk
DufourspitzeOccitan (post 1500)
دوفوراشپیتزهPersian
DufourspitzePolish
Punta DufourRomanian
Vârful Dufour, Monte RosaRomanian
Piz da DufourRomansh
ДюфурRussian
Пик ДюфурRussian
DufourspitzeScots
DufourspitzeSlovak
DufourspitzeSlovenian
DufourspitzeSwahili
DufourspitzeSwedish
DufourspitzeSwiss German
ДуфурTajik
DufourspitzeTurkish
ДюфурUkrainian
Ponta DufourVenetian
DufourspitzeWelsh
مونٹے روزاWestern Panjabi
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