Pennine Alps

However, annual precipitation is extremely variable throughout the site, being greater on the Bernese slopes which have a sub-oceanic climate, than on the south-facing Valais side which is sheltered by the Bernese and Pennine Alps. The Valais region experiences a subcontinental climate at low and medium altitudes.

Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland 2008

Mount Cenis, where the _Cottian_ terminate, and extending to Great St. Bernard; the _Pennine Alps_, extending from west to east to the

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Alpine valleys that descend towards the plain from the south side of the Pennine Alps, from the east side of the Graiian and Cottian, and from the north side of the Maritime Alps. Its name, pedes montium, from which arose Pedimontium, came from its geographical position, enclosed on three sides by high mountains.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Crystal Peak over the Val Bavona on the east, and they are the flanking bastions of one great wall, the Pennine Alps. Take the

The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

Aosta over the Pennine Alps to Octodurus at the elbow of the upper

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

Jupiter Pen these mountains took the name of Pennine Alps, which they bear to this day.

The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches David Starr Jordan 1891

The incident happened on the Mont Velan, a towering 12,200-feet 3,730-meter peak that straddles Swiss-Italian border in the Pennine Alps, Bornet said.

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The incident happened on Mont Velan, a towering 12,200-feet 3,730-meter peak that straddles the Swiss-Italian border in the Pennine Alps.

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Pennine Alps, or the part of Switzerland between the Reus, the Valais, and the rest of Savoy.

The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands Charles Butler 1791

-- Travels through the Pennine Alps, by the same, 1788. small folio, both translated from the French.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson William Stevenson 1784