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Geologic Formation Attractions In Bernese Oberland

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The Berner Oberland , is the higher part of the canton of Bern, Switzerland, in the southern end of the canton, and one of the canton's five administrative regions . The whole region consists of the area around Meiringen and Hasliberg up to Grimsel Pass , around Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, and the valleys of many high mountains with the inevitable Jungfrau Peak , the area southwest of the Lake Thun with Kandersteg and Adelboden, and the area round Gstaad and Lenk in the Simmental. The mountain range in the Berner Oberland south of the Aare and north of the Rhône are collectively called the Bernese Alps. The flag of the Berner Oberland consists of a bla...
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Geologic Formation Attractions In Bernese Oberland

  • 1. Aletsch Glacier Jungfrau Region
    The Aletsch Glacier or Great Aletsch Glacier is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km , has about a volume of 15.4 km3 , and covers about 81.7 km2 in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Aletsch Glacier is composed of four smaller glaciers converging at Concordia Place, where its thickness was measured by the ETH to be still near 1 km . It then continues towards the Rhône valley before giving birth to the Massa. The Aletsch Glacier is – like most glaciers on this world – a retreating glacier. As of 2016, since 1980 it lost 1.3 kilometres of its length, since 1870 3.2 kilometres , and lost also more than 300 metres of its thickness.The whole area, including other glaciers is part of the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area, which was declared...
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