The Aare Gorge (German: Aareschlucht) is a section of the river Aare that carves through a limestone ridge near the town of Meiringen, in the Bernese Oberland...
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river carves through a limestone ridge in the Aare Gorge (German: Aareschlucht). It is here that the Aare proves itself to be more than just a river, as...
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local transport role, as well as transporting tourists to the scenic Aare Gorge. The line was originally built as a construction railway to support the...
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List of canyons (redirect from List of gorges)
Cheddar Gorge, England Gorges du Tarn, France Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, Iceland Bicaz Gorge, Romania Aare Gorge, Switzerland Osum Gorge Këlcyrë Gorge Leutasch...
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Unusually, the station is located inside a tunnel that runs parallel to the Aare Gorge (German: Aareschlucht). As of the December 2020 timetable change,[update]...
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Meiringen-Innertkirchen-Bahn (MIB). The station is adjacent to the Aare river and located just west of the Aare Gorge (German: Aareschlucht). The station is named "West"...
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Saxetbach (redirect from Saxetenbach Gorge)
It forms a narrow ravine, the Saxetbach Gorge. On 27 July 1999, an accident occurred in Saxetbach Gorge (a gorge close to the village of Saxeten) in which...
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lower station of the Reichenbachfall Funicular, and the Aare Gorge, where it served the gorge's western entrance. The tramway was opened in 1912, and closed...
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Meiringen (category Populated places on the Aare)
tramway was constructed to link the village to the Reichenbach Falls and Aare Gorge, two of the principle local tourist attractions; the line survived until...
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(MIB) is a local railway that links to Innertkirchen and the Aare Gorge. The station is served by passenger trains of both operators, and also...
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Reuss (river) (category Tributaries of the Aare)
323 sq mi), it is the fourth largest river in Switzerland (after the Rhine, Aare and Rhône). The upper Reuss forms the main valley of the canton of Uri. The...
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during exceptional flooding events. At the confluence of the Aare and the Rhine, the Aare at 564 m3/s carries more water on average than the Rhine at 442 m3/s...
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The nearby Aare gorge became a tourist destination in 1888. Between 1912 and 1956 a tram connected Meiringen, Schattnehalb and the Aare gorge. Today the...
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Reichenbachtal (category Aare basin)
Its water, the Rychenbach, forms the Reichenbach Fall before joining the Aare at Meiringen. Rosenlaui is the highest settlement in the valley, situated...
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Lütschine (category Tributaries of the Aare)
tributaries. A notable tributary of the Schwarze Lütschine, emerging from the gorge of the Lower Grindelwald Glacier, is confusingly referred to as "Weisse...
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Brugg (category Populated places on the Aare)
a (650 ft) gorge. The Aare narrows from its previous width of about 130 meters (430 feet) to a mere 12 m (39 ft). It is along this gorge that the historic...
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or zuwendig" (literally: within and between or towards) the Aare river and the Aare gorge; the Sisgau county; an estate in Reinach which is pledged to...
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(near Möhlin) Sissle - 18.3 km (11.4 mi) - 128 km2 (49 sq mi) (in Sisseln) Aare (Aar) - 295 km (183 mi) - 17,779 km2 (6,865 sq mi) (in Koblenz) Surb - 18 km...
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them from the Lepontine Alps to the southeast; the Grimsel Pass and the Aare valley separates them from the Uri Alps in the east, and from the Emmental...
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mountain of the Jura range proper is the Lägern, situated east of the river Aare. Much of the Swiss Jura region has no historical association with Early Modern...
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tributary of the Aare, not vice versa. The Rhine is, however, generally considered the main stream, because it is slightly longer than the Aare. The Rhine Falls...
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Solothurn (category Populated places on the Aare)
armour in Europe. Old town The Verena Gorge and the Verena Gorge Hermitage Waldegg Castle Weissenstein mountain The Aare as seen from the cathedral. Amthausplatz...
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500 cu ft/s)); the Aare is, however, slightly shorter than the Rhine upstream of their confluence. For the following considerations, the Aare will be ignored...
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Reichenbach Falls (category Aare basin)
Reichenbachtal, on the Rychenbach, a tributary (from the south bank) of the Aare. They are some 1.5 km (0.93 mi) south of the town of Meiringen, and Interlaken...
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Markus; Taal, Imre; Svirgsden, Roland; Urtson, Kristjan; Saks, Lauri; Verliin, Aare; Kesler, Martin; Saat, Toomas (26 April 2013). "Life history of anadromous...
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Suze (river) (category Tributaries of the Aare)
the last leg of the Thielle river, merging into the Nidau-Büren channel (Aare river), just before the regulating dam Port . Its main tributaries are la...
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Lower Grindelwald Glacier (category Aare basin)
hiking path around the Bänisegg. Around 2000 it still reached into the gorge between the Hörnli (Eiger) and Mättenberg. The Lower Grindelwald Glacier...
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Tamina (river) (section Tamina Gorge)
almost 29 km (18 mi), flowing through the Tamina Valley, of which Tamina Gorge (Taminaschlucht) is an impressiv part, before it enters the Rhine as a left...
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Korsakov's 28,000 Russians held Zürich and the east bank of the Limmat and Aare Rivers as far as the Rhine River. Hotze's command was split into two divisions...
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