the Mont Blanc massif. On a very clear day, it can be seen from the spires of Milan Cathedral.[citation needed] It has been suggested that Monte Viso could...
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Mont Blanc (BrE: /ˌmɒ̃ˈblɒ̃(k)/; AmE: /ˌmɒn(t)ˈblɑːŋk/) is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, and the highest mountain in Europe outside...
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of the Mont Viso. Androsace saussurei and A. delphinensis in the A. pubescens group, which grow on siliceous substrate and are endemic to Mont Blanc and...
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violence and of power, curved throwing weapons, sceptres and axes. … Mont Viso and the Beigua massif (in the Italian Alps) occupied a central position...
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23 February 1917 Longhirst United Kingdom 3,053 Sunk 23 February 1917 Mont Viso France 4,820 Damaged 24 February 1917 Dorothy United Kingdom 3,806 Sunk...
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Hautes-Alpes Le Monêtier-les-Bains, Villar-d'Arêne 1974 6,85 RNN16 Ristolas – Mont-Viso Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Hautes-Alpes Ristolas 2007 23 RNN163 Plaine...
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Michel France 175 Sunk 28 June 1917 Minerve France 723 Sunk 30 June 1917 Mont Viso France 4,820 Sunk 3 July 1917 Marthe Roux France 1,962 Sunk 4 July 1917...
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torpedoed by U-262 on 31 October 1943, while escorts sank U-306. KMS 30 lost Mont Viso torpedoed by U-593 on 3 November 1943. KMF 25 lost two ships bombed by...
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convoy NSS 3 on 21 September 1943, USS Skill on 25 September, 4531-ton Mont Viso of convoy KMS 30 on 3 November, and HMS Holcombe and HMS Tynedale of convoy...
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transboundary UNESCO biosphere reserve crossing the border of Portugal and Spain. Mont Viso / Area della Biosfera del Monviso is a transboundary UNESCO biosphere...
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tunnels, 3.2 km) Buco di Viso (mule track, oldest tunnel in the Alps) Fréjus Road Tunnel and the much older Fréjus Railway Tunnel Mont Cenis Tunnel (railway)...
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Goûter Route (redirect from Modern normal route on the French side of Mont Blanc)
one of the two normal mountaineering routes used to reach the summit of Mont Blanc in the Alps, ascending to a height of 4,808 metres (15,774 ft). The...
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May 2019. "Minato Maru". www.combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 16 May 2019. "Mont Viso". Uboat. Retrieved 10 April 2012. "Renato Bechi". ricerca.gelocal.it....
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September 1943 USS Skill United States Navy 815 Sunk 3 November 1943 Mont Viso Free France 4,531 Sunk 12 December 1943 HMS Tynedale Royal Navy 1,000...
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20 October 2012. "Markersdal". Uboat.net. Retrieved 22 December 2012. "Mont Viso". Uboat.net. Retrieved 2 October 2012. "Phoebus". Uboat.net. Retrieved...
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Monte Clapier (redirect from Mont Clapier)
the Mediterranean to the south to the high Alps to the northeast. Monte Viso is prominent to the north and 4000m peaks like the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa...
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Aneto (redirect from Mont Nethou)
(1898). "De Bagnères-de-Luchon aux Monts-Maudits. Récits de courses et d'expériences (From Bagnères-de-Luchon to the Monts-Maudits. Stories of travels and...
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only team willing to run a car numbered 13 full-time, with driver E. J. Viso, when they did so for the 2009 IndyCar Series season, despite negative superstitions...
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Gran Paradiso, Grande Casse 1861 Castor, Fluchthorn, Lyskamm, Mont Pourri, Monte Viso, Schreckhorn, Weisshorn, Weißkugel 1862 Dent Blanche, Dent Parrachée...
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June to August. This plant is endemic to the Western Alps from Monte Viso to Mont Cenis. This rare species can be found in on calcareous soils, debris...
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Monte Rosa (redirect from Mont Rose)
Monte Rosa (Italian: [ˈmonte ˈrɔːza]; Lombard: Mont Roeusa [ˌmũː(t) ˈrøːza]; French: Mont Rose [mɔ̃ ʁoz]; Walser: de Gletscher or de Gorner; German: Monte...
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climbed only much later, such at Mont Pelvoux (1848), Monte Viso (1861) and La Meije (1877). The first British Mont Blanc ascent by a man was in 1788;...
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prominence parent is marked with "1" and the island parent with "2" (with Mont Blanc abbreviated to MB). The column "Col height" denotes the lowest elevation...
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Blüemlisalphorn, Gran Paradiso, Grande Casse (1860) Castor, Lyskamm, Monte Viso, Schreckhorn, Weisshorn, Weißkugel (1861) Dent Blanche, Gross Fiescherhorn...
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Chardoux Creek to the northwest; the Mont Cenis Pass to the north, which connects the Cottian Alps with the Graian Alps; Mont Cenis Lake, the Cenischia Valley...
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1994 m) Monte Viso (France / Italy, 3841 m) Col de Montgenèvre (France / Italy, 1854 m) Col de Fréjus (France / Italy, 2537 m) Col du Mont Cenis (France...
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mountains themselves, which with a few very rare exceptions (e.g. Monte Viso was known to the Romans as Vesulus) were for a long time disregarded. Native...
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Madeira: Ruivo Alps (List) Mont Blanc Grossglockner Finsteraarhorn Wildspitze Bernina Hochkönig Dufourspitze Hoher Dachstein Marmolada Viso Triglav Barre des Écrins...
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Aiguille du Midi 3,842 12,605 Graian Alps, Mont Blanc Massif, France Mount Moran 3,842 12,605 Wyoming, US Monte Viso 3,841 12,602 Italian Alps Sauyr Zhotasy...
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the Puy de Sancy on skis in 1905. In 1936, a cable car link was built from Mont-Dore to one of the needles just below the summit. On Christmas Day in late...
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