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The Bernese Alps (German: Berner Alpen, French: Alpes bernoises, Italian: Alpi bernesi) are a mountain range of the Alps, located in western Switzerland. Although the name suggests that they are located in the Berner Oberland region of the canton of Bern, portions of the Bernese Alps are in the adjacent cantons of Valais, Fribourg and Vaud, the latter being usually named Fribourg Alps and Vaud Alps respectively. The highest mountain in the range, the Finsteraarhorn, is also the highest point in the canton of Bern.
The Rhône valley separates them from the Chablais Alps in the west and from the Pennine Alps in the south; the upper Rhône valley separates 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 Alps in the north; their northwestern edge is not well defined, describing a line roughly from Lake Geneva to Lake Thun. The Bernese Alps are drained by the river Aare and its tributary the Saane in the north, the Rhône in the south, and the Reuss in the east.
The Bernese Alps are amongst the three highest major subranges of the Alps, together with the Pennine Alps and the Mont Blanc massif.[1]
^Natural Wonders of the World. Dorling Kindersley Limited. 2017. p. 138. ISBN 9780241428436. The Alps contain many subranges, some of which are mapped below. The loftiest are the Pennine Alps, which contain 13 of the highest 20 alpine peaks; the Bernese Alps contain four; and the Mont Blanc Massif in the Graian Alps has three.
The BerneseAlps (German: Berner Alpen, French: Alpes bernoises, Italian: Alpi bernesi) are a mountain range of the Alps, located in western Switzerland...
sometimes called Central Alps. While the northern ranges from the BerneseAlps to the Appenzell Alps are entirely in Switzerland, the southern ranges from the...
constitutes the Alpine region of the canton and the northern side of the BerneseAlps, including many of its highest peaks, among which the Finsteraarhorn...
The Bernese Mountain Dog (German: Berner Sennenhund) is a large dog breed from Bern, Switzerland and the Swiss Alps, being one of the four breeds of Sennenhund-type...
(Valais). The Pennine Alps are amongst the three highest major subranges of the Alps, together with the BerneseAlps and the Graian Alps that include the Mont...
Rhône from its headwaters to Lake Geneva, separating the Pennine Alps from the BerneseAlps, the two largest mountain ranges of the canton. A major wine region...
forms part of the Jungfrau Region of the Bernese Oberland, between Interlaken and the main crest of the BerneseAlps. Similarly to Lauterbrunnen, Grindelwald...
3,967-metre (13,015 ft) mountain of the BerneseAlps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the...
virgin"), at 4,158 meters (13,642 ft) is one of the main summits of the BerneseAlps, located between the northern canton of Bern and the southern canton...
Davos, Graubünden. Due to the prominence of the BerneseAlps in British mountaineering, the Bernese Oberland was long especially known as a tourist destination...
forms part of the Jungfrau Region of the Bernese Oberland, between Interlaken and the main crest of the BerneseAlps. Similarly to Grindelwald, Lauterbrunnen...
Pass to Splügen Pass) BerneseAlps (north of the Rhône to the Grimsel Pass) Urner Alps (from Grimsel Pass to the Reuss) Glarus Alps (north-east of Oberalp...
The BerneseAlps in the wide meaning (in German Berner Alpen i.w.S., in French Alpes Bernoises D.l.s.l.) are a mountain range in the northwestern part...
coordinates) This page tabulates only the most prominent mountains of the Alps, selected for having a topographic prominence of at least 300 metres (980 ft)...
The Doldenhorn is a mountain of the BerneseAlps, overlooking Kandersteg in the Bernese Oberland. On its north side is Lake Oeschinen. List of mountains...
minor summit below the Schwarzhorn in the BerneseAlps in Switzerland First (Kandersteg), a mountain in BerneseAlps in Switzerland First light, a milestone...
lit. "maiden saddle") is a saddle connecting two major 4000ers of the BerneseAlps: the Jungfrau and the Mönch. It lies at an elevation of 3,463 metres...
Blanc to the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa on the southern side, and the BerneseAlps on the northern. The peaks in the easterly portion of the range, in Austria...
International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation defines a summit in the Alps as independent, if the connecting ridge between it and a higher summit drops...
Switzerland: the Jura Mountains (the Bernese Jura), the Swiss Plateau (the Bernese Mittelland) and the Alps (the Bernese Oberland). The canton of Bern is...
Swiss Alps. Most of them are situated in the Pennine and BerneseAlps. The Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area includes the largest glaciers of the Alps. There...
The Wellhorn is a mountain of the BerneseAlps, overlooking Rosenlaui in the Bernese Oberland. On its eastern side is the Rosenlaui Glacier. Retrieved...
and covers about 81.7 km2 (31.5 square miles) (2011) in the eastern BerneseAlps in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Aletsch Glacier is composed of four...
of the Thur) by the great northern outlier of the Alps, which consists of the Bernese and Glarus Alps. Two wide and undulating valleys (Aare and Thur)...
exceeding 4,000 metres (13,000 ft). The two main mountain ranges are the Alps (south and east) and the Jura (north and west), separated by the Swiss Plateau...
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