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The Jungfraujoch

Switzerland

is a col or saddle between the Mönch and the Jungfrau in the Bernese Alps on the boundary between the cantons of Bern and Valais, inside the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area.

 

Strictly, the Jungfraujoch is the lowest point on the mountain ridge between Mönch and Jungfrau, at 3,471 meters (11,388 ft).

 

It is just above this location that the mountain station of Jungfraubahn is located,

Jungfraujoch railway station, which at an elevation of 3,454 meters (11,332 ft)

is the highest railway station in Europe.

 

The Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area is the first World Natural Heritage site in the Alps, it was inscribed in 2001.

 

@Wikipedia

 

Switzerland,

Sept. 2013

 

 

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