!!!Hohe Tauern

Hohe Tauern Range, mountain range in the main ridge of the eastern 
Alps, its mountains consist of gneiss and crystalline slates from the 
Palaeozoic, covered with Tauern slate ( Tauern Window). They are 
130 km long and 50 km wide and run between the Krimmler Ache 
river, Krimmler Tauern pass (2,633 m) and Ahrntal valley in the 
west, the Grossarltal valley, Murtoerl mountain (2,260 m), 
Murwinkel area and Katschberg mountain (1,642 m) in the east, the 
Salzachtal valley in the north and the Pustertal and Drautal valleys 
in the south; the Grossglockner (3,798 m) and the Grossvenediger 
(3,666 m) mountains are part of the Hohe Tauern. The name 
Hohe Tauern derives from the word "Tauern", a commonly used 
expression for the passes that separate the highly glaciated range 
into groups of mountains at an altitude of 2,400-2,700 m: the 
Venediger massif between the Krimmler Tauern and the Felber Tauern 
passes, the Granatspitz massif between the Felber Tauern and the 
Kalser Tauern passes, the Glockner massif between the Kalser Tauern 
and the Hochtor peak, the Goldberg massif (Sonnberg massif) between 
the Hochtor and the Niedere Tauern (Mallnitzer Tauern) mountains, the 
Ankogel massif between the Hohe Tauern (Korntauern) and the 
Arlscharte col, the Hafnermassif between the Arlscharte and the 
Katschberg mountain. In the south preceded by the Rieserferner, 
Schober, Kreuzeck and Reisseck massifs. The valleys leading in a 
northerly direction to the River Salzach are stepped and characterised 
by smooth trough walls, waterfalls and gorges (the Liechtensteinklamm, 
Gasteiner Klamm, Kitzlochklamm and Siegmund-Thun-Klamm gorges), at the 
glaciated valley heads are numerous small Alpine lakes. The snow line 
of the Hohe Tauern lies between 2,700 and 2,900 m. A large part 
of the Hohe Tauern forms part of the  Hohe Tauern National Park. 
The Felbertauern road tunnel, the  Grossglockner-Hochalpenstrasse, the 
Tauern railway tunnel and the Katschberg road tunnel traverse the Hohe 
Tauern. The mountain range is important both for tourism and for the 
power industry. The main range of the Hohe Tauern forms the border 
between Salzburg in the north and Tyrol (South Tyrol and East Tyrol) 
and Carinthia in the south and, since 1919, a short section of the 
Austro-Italian border in the far west.


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