High Tauern
Facts
16 properties- Instance of
- alpine subsection
- Located in
- Carinthia, Salzburg, Tyrol, South Tyrol
- Part of
- Central Eastern Alps[10]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 47.167°, 12.500°[12]
- Area
- 1836.0
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 47.167°, 12.500°
- Described by source
- New International Encyclopedia[13]
- Elevation above sea level
- 3798.0[15]
- Highest point
- Grossglockner[11]
- Length
- 130.0[14]
- Made from material
- gneiss, crystalline schist[8][9]
- Mountain range
- Western Tauern Alps
- Time period
- Paleozoic
- Width
- 50.0
- VIAF cluster ID
- 248954708
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh85061392
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Hohe Tauern von Nordwest.jpg ↗
- BabelNet ID
- 00539872n
- De Agostini ID
- Alti+Tàuri
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Hohe-Tauern
- Freebase ID
- /m/04v1wf
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -1980996
- GeoNames ID
- 2775659
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 4184017
- Lex ID
- Hohe_Tauern
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge138006
Show all 17 identifiers +5
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007562974005171
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3985721
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 2129656
- Topic's main category
- Category:Hohe Tauern
- Yale LUX ID
- place/a2c35028-def6-4b0c-82ab-32151db493f7
← Mountain range 17
Located in the administrative territorial entity 4
Named after 3
Made from material 2
Belongs to 1
Described by source 1
Highest point 1
Mountain range 1
Part of 1
Time period 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Crosses 1
← Origin of the watercourse 1
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Summary
High Tauern is an alpine subsection[1].
Body
Geography
Country listings include Austria[6], a sovereign state[16], in Austria[17], founded in 1918[18] and Italy[7], a country[19], in Italy[20], founded in 1946[21]. Located in include Carinthia[2], a federal state of Austria[22], in Austria[23]; Salzburg[3], a federal state of Austria[24], in Austria[25]; Tyrol[4], a federal state of Austria[26], in Austria[27]; and South Tyrol[5], a province of Italy[28], in Italy[29], founded in 1948[30].
Physical Characteristics
High Tauern's area is recorded as 1836 km²[31].
Cultural Significance
Things named for High Tauern include Tauern Railway[32], a railway line[33], in Austria[34]; Tauern Railway Tunnel[35], a railway tunnel[36], in Austria[37], founded in 1909[38]; and Hohe Tauern Window[39].
Why It Matters
Entities named for it include Tauern Railway[32], a railway line[33], in Austria[34]; Tauern Railway Tunnel[35], a railway tunnel[36], in Austria[37], founded in 1909[38]; and Hohe Tauern Window[39].