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2. Lake Geneva - Wikipedia

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   Lake Geneva [note 1] is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and the ...

3. Geography of Switzerland - Wikipedia

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   The Jura is a limestone mountain range running from Lake Geneva to the Rhine river. This area makes up about 12% of Switzerland's land area. This area makes up about 12% of Switzerland's land area. Located about 700 metres (2,300 ft) above sea level, this region is characterized by a limestone highland with deep river valleys.

4. Swiss Plateau - Wikipedia

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   In the southwest, the Swiss Plateau is confined by Lake Geneva, in the northeast, by Lake Constance and the Rhine. Geologically, the Swiss Plateau is part of a larger basin that extends beyond the border of Switzerland. At its southwestern end, in France, the plateau, in the Genevois, ends at Chambéry where Jura and Alps meet.

5. Four of Lake Geneva's six beaches remain closed due to ... - AOL

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   Four of the City of Lake Geneva's beaches remain closed due to blue-green algae, a bloom that can produce toxins that can make humans and animals sick, or even cause them to die in some cases.

6. Millions of cicadas are blanketing Lake Geneva. Here's what ...

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   Lake Geneva, Liesch said, is Wisconsin's number-one "cicada hotspot" and the best place to see them in the state, especially along the north side of Geneva Lake. Like April's solar eclipse, many ...

7. The Miraculous Draft of Fishes (Witz) - Wikipedia

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   In this painting Witz takes the revolutionary step of moving the scene from the biblical Sea of Galilee to his local area, around Lake Geneva. [2] With this move, Witz was able to base his rendering of the far landscape on his own observation of actual topographical features rather than rely on imaginative interpretation as earlier artists did.

8. Swiss Alps - Wikipedia

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   The limit between the Alps and the plateau runs from Vevey on the shores of Lake Geneva to Rorschach on the shores of Lake Constance, passing close to the cities of Thun and Lucerne. [6] The not well defined regions in Switzerland that lie on the margin of the Alps, especially those on the north side, are called the Swiss Prealps [ 7 ...

9. List of World Heritage Sites in Switzerland - Wikipedia

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   Monte San Giorgio, overlooking Lake Lugano, is regarded as the best fossil record of marine life from the Triassic Period (245–230 million years ago). In that period, the area was a tropical lagoon, flourishing with reptiles, fish, bivalves, ammonites, echinoderms, and crustaceans. Fossils of terrestrial animals are also preserved, as the ...