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Grossglockner

The Gro??glockner (German: Gro??glockner [??????o??s????l??kn??] ), or just Glockner, is, at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic (12,461 ft), the highest mountain in Austria and highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. It is part of the larger Glockner Group of the Hohe Tauern range, situated along the main ridge of the Central Eastern Alps and the Alpine divide. The Pasterze, Austria's most extended glacier, lies on the Grossglockner's eastern slope. The characteristic pyramid-shaped peak actually consists of two pinnacles, the Gro??glockner and the Kleinglockner (3,770 m or 12,370 ft, from German: gro?? 'big', klein 'small'), separated by the Glocknerscharte col. Etymology The name Glocknerer is first documented in a 1561 map designed by the Viennese cartographer Wolfgang Lazius. The denotation Glogger is mentioned...

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