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    Oberalp Pass (Romansh: Alpsu or Cuolm d'Ursera; German: Oberalppass) (2044 meters above sea level) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting...
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    engineer Henri Alexis Brialmont were built at Airolo, the Oberalp Pass, Furka Pass, and Grimsel Pass, all in the Central Alps. Additional positions were constructed...
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    The Furka Oberalp Railway (German: Furka Oberalp Bahn) is a narrow gauge mountain railway in Switzerland with a gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in). It runs...
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    the Furka Pass — makes an intermediate stop at Andermatt in a secluded high Alpine valley, and traverses its high point on the Oberalp Pass at 2,033 m...
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    brought clashes at the Oberalp Pass and Hospental (archaic Hospital). The Austro-Russian army successfully captured the Gotthard Pass after stiff fighting...
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    Leventina. The region of Andermatt lies at the foot of the Furka and Oberalp Passes connecting the Rhone and Rhine Valleys thus making the Gotthard area...
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    Pass, the Reschen Pass, the Brenner Pass, the Plöcken Pass, the Pontebba Pass (or Saifnitz Pass), the Radstädter Tauern Pass and the Solkscharte Pass...
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    Oberalpsee (redirect from Lake Oberalp)
    Oberalpsee is a lake just below Oberalp Pass on the side of the Canton of Uri in Switzerland. List of mountain lakes of Switzerland Media related to Oberalpsee...
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    Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO), serving the town and municipality of Andermatt, in the canton of Uri, Switzerland. The station is connected, via the Furka Pass, with...
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    with Realp, Uri via the seasonal Furkapassroute. The Furka Oberalp Bahn bypasses the pass through the 1,390 m (4,560 ft) high Furka Base Tunnel, which...
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    an amalgamation of Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO) and BVZ Zermatt-Bahn (BVZ). The name comes from the Matterhorn and St. Gotthard Pass. Its network is 144 km (89...
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    Railways (SBB CFF FFS), as well as the line from Disentis/Mustér to the Oberalp Pass and further on to Andermatt, Uri, which is operated by Matterhorn Gotthard...
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    with the Ticino, Rhône and Reuss. Traditionally, Lake Toma near the Oberalp Pass in the Gotthard region is seen as the source of the Anterior Rhine and...
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    Glarus Alps (section Passes)
    Vorab Glacier The chief passes of the Tödi Range, from the Oberalp Pass to the Klausen Pass, are: Note: road status as of 1911[update]. Swiss Alps John...
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    (Source of Hinterrhein)). It is possible to reach the lake on a path from Oberalp Pass, suitable for most walkers although still a mountain trail. (in English)...
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    Maloja Pass Nufenen Pass Oberalp Pass Petit Col Ferret – Italy/Switzerland Plöcken Pass (Passo di Monte Croce Carnico) Austria/Italy Pordoi Pass – Italy...
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    routes from Chur towards the Oberalp Pass and Lukmanier Pass and from Chur towards San Bernardino Pass and Julier Pass. The civilisation of the place...
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    Nufenen Pass on the west, by the Furka Pass and the Oberalp Pass on the north and by the Lukmanier Pass on the east. The eponymous Gotthard Pass, lying...
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    actually unite near Pizzo Rotondo (west of the St Gotthard Pass), parting again near the Oberalp Pass (east of the St Gotthard). Between these two great snowclad...
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    three Alpine passes: the Oberalp Pass (6,706 ft; 2,044 m.) to the east, the St Gotthard Pass (6,909 ft; 2,106 m.) to the south and the Furka Pass (7,992 ft;...
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    Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO) was a metre-gauge railway in the high southern alps. Its name referred to two passes, the Furka Pass and the Oberalp Pass. The...
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    Rhätische Bahn, and from Disentis, the Furka-Oberalp line of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn runs to the Oberalp Pass and on to Andermatt. In the Ruinaulta area...
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    municipality of the canton, connected to Urseren (canton of Uri) by the Oberalp Pass. The upper Surselva was first settled in the 9th century, following the...
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    Rhine valley, where the roads of the Oberalp pass coming from central and western Switzerland and of the Lukmanier pass coming from the Ticino meet. It has...
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    unnamed streams descending from the Puozas and Milez areas close to the Oberalp Pass About 70 km: the Aua da Val, descending from the valley Val, which disappears...
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    National Bike Route no. 3, before crossing the Alps at the Gotthard Pass. It then passes through Italy (more closely following Sigeric's route) to Rome before...
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    Urner Alps (from Grimsel Pass to the Reuss) Glarus Alps (north-east of Oberalp Pass) Appenzell Alps (north of Sargans) Within the Eastern Alps, the most...
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  • Anteriur (the Surselva) and all its side valleys, from the source near the Oberalp Pass all the way down towards Reichenau (where the Vorderrhein joins the Hinterrhein/Rein...
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    Switzerland. The station is at the eastern end of the Oberalp Pass. It forms part of the Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO), which connects Brig in Valais, via Andermatt...
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    railway tunnel in Switzerland (not considering minor tunnels such as the Oberalp Pass tunnel and dead-end tunnels such as the Jungfrau Tunnel) Eisenbahnatlas...
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