Portal:Alps/General images

The following are images from various Alps-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Preserved internal alpine forest and meadow, Vanoise National Park (from Alps)
Image 2The Nazis hid looted art in salt mines at Altaussee, such as the Early Netherlandish Ghent Altarpiece which sustained significant damage. (from Alps)
Image 3Chamonix, The Monument of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Jacques Balmat, in honor of their climb of Mont Blanc (from History of the Alps)
Image 4Southern pre-alpine lakes like Lake Garda are characterised by warmer microclimates than the surrounding areas. (from Alps)
Image 5Herding sheep in Austria (from Alps)
Image 6Mont Blanc massif (from History of the Alps)
Image 7Suvorov crossing the Alps, by Vasily Surikov (from History of the Alps)
Image 8Teufelsbrücke (Devil's Bridge) on the route to the St Gotthard Pass; the currently used bridge from 1958 over the first drivable bridge from 1830 (from Alps)
Image 9Napoleon passing the Great St Bernard Pass, by Edouard Castres (from Alps)
Image 10Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria (from History of the Alps)
Image 11The Alps seen from space (from Geography of the Alps)
Image 12Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum) (from Alps)
Image 13Petroglyphs, Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, Italy, which was recognised by UNESCO in 1979 and was Italy's first recognised World Heritage Site (from Alps)
Image 14Painted view of Theodul Pass (3,295 m) around 1800. (from High Alps)
Image 15Alpine chalet being built in Haute-Maurienne (Savoy). The use of thick pieces of orthogneiss (4–7 cm) is by the strict architectural regulations in the region bordering the national parks of Vanoise-Grand Paradis. (from Alps)
Image 16The alpine Apollo butterfly has adapted to alpine conditions. (from Alps)
Image 17Napoleon passing the Great St Bernard Pass, by Edouard Castres (from History of the Alps)
Image 18A typical alpine village in the Tuxertal valley of Tyrol, Austria (from History of the Alps)
Image 19Reconstruction of Ötzi mummy as shown in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. The original mummy and his remains and personal belongings are on exhibit at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. (from History of the Alps)
Image 20A typical alpine village in the Tuxertal valley of Tyrol, Austria (from Alps)
Image 21Zentralbahn Interregio train following the Lake Brienz shoreline, near Niederried in Switzerland (from Alps)
Image 22Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (from Alps)
Image 23This illustration of the glacier systems of the Mont Blanc massif by Alexander Keith Johnston was first published 1848 in The Physical Atlas. (from Alps)
Image 24The Alps extend in an arc from France in the south and west to Slovenia in the east, and from Monaco in the south to Germany in the north. (from Alps)
Image 25Tectonic map of southern Europe and the Middle East, showing tectonic structures of the western Alpide mountain belt (from Alpine orogeny)
Image 26Compressed metamorphosed Tethyan sediments and their oceanic basement are sandwiched between the tip of the Matterhorn (Italian-Swiss border), which consists of gneisses originally part of the African plate, and the base of the peak, which is part of the Eurasian plate. (from Alps)
Image 27Louis Agassiz's studies of the Unteraar Glacier in the 1840s showed that it moved at 100 m (328 ft) per year. (from Alps)
Image 28Life zones of the Alps (from Climate of the Alps)
Image 29Eurasian Plate (from Alpine orogeny)
Image 30Karl Schranz running the Lauberhorn in 1966 (from Alps)
Image 31The geologic folding seen at the Arpenaz waterfall, shown here in a mid-18th-century drawing, was noted by 18th-century geologists. (from Alps)
Image 32Habsburg Castle, Switzerland (from History of the Alps)
Image 33In the summers the cows are brought up to the high mountain meadows for grazing. Small summer villages such as the one shown in this photograph taken in Savoy are used. (from Alps)
Image 34The Sphinx Tunnel connecting Jungfraujoch railway station to the Sphinx Observatory, through a glacier at the Jungfraujoch (from Alps)
Image 35Hallstatt is known for its production of salt, dating back to prehistoric times (Hallstatt culture) (from Alps)
Image 36Young alpine ibex. When fully grown the horns of this male will be about one metre wide. (from Alps)
Image 37Teufelsbrücke (Devil's Bridge) on the route to the Gotthard Pass; the currently used bridge from 1958 over the first drivable bridge from 1830 (from History of the Alps)
Image 38Petroglyphs, Rock Drawings in Valcamonica, Italy, which was recognized by UNESCO in 1979 and was Italy's first recognized World Heritage Site (from History of the Alps)
Image 39The ski resort in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Veneto, Italy (from History of the Alps)
Image 40The Aletsch Glacier with pine trees growing on the hillside (2007; the surface is 180 m (590 ft) lower than 150 years ago; and even 20 m (66 ft) lower ten years later!) (from Alps)
Image 41The Mont Blanc massif, the highest range of the Alps (from Alps)
Image 42The Eiger (shown along with the Mönch and the Jungfrau) has the tallest north face in the Alps. (from Alps)
Image 43An "Alp" refers to a high elevation pasture frequented only in summer. It often includes several huts and small places of worship (here the Alpe Bardughè in Ticino). (from Alps)
Image 44Reconstruction of Ötzi mummy as shown in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. The original mummy and his remains and personal belongings are on exhibit at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. (from Alps)
Image 45Horace Bénédict de Saussure shown in, Descent from Mont-Blanc, by Christian von Mechel (from Alps)
Image 46Stemless gentian (Gentiana acaulis) (from Alps)