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Montblanc (UK: / ˌ m ɒ ˈ b l ɒ (k)/, US: / ˌ m ɑː n (t) ˈ b l ɑː ŋ k /) is a German manufacturer and distributor of luxury goods, founded in Berlin in 1906, and currently based in Hamburg. The company is most known for its luxury pens; it also designs and distributes bags, perfumes, small leather goods, and watches.
Montblanc, Tarragona, a municipality in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain; Montblanc (company), a German manufacturer of writing instruments, watches and accessories; Montblanc (Final Fantasy), a moogle in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance A2, and Final Fantasy XII; Montblanc Cricket, a character from One Piece
Where the prominence parent and the island parent differ, the prominence parent is marked with "1" and the island parent with "2" (with Mont Blanc abbreviated to MB). The column "Col height" denotes the lowest elevation to which one must descend from a peak in order to reach peaks with higher elevations; note that the elevation of any peak is ...
Mont Blanc is the title of an 1816 poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley; Mont Blanc Restaurant is a former restaurant in London; TV8 Mont-Blanc, a Savoie-based television channel; An older name for Montblanc (company), a German manufacturer of writing instruments, watches and accessories; Mont Blanc, Estonian 2001 animated film
View from Contamines-Montjoie. From A Tour to Great St Bernards and round Mont Blanc, W.Rose. 1827 (written for young people aged 10 to 14) [78] In 1741, the Chamouny valley and its glaciers on the north side of the massif were discovered and written about by two aristocratic travelling Englishmen, named William Windham and Richard Pococke. The ...
While some of the ranges of the French Alps are entirely in France, others, such as the Mont Blanc massif, are shared with Switzerland and Italy. At 4,808 metres (15,774 ft), Mont Blanc , on the France–Italy border , is the highest mountain in the Alps, and the highest Western European mountain .
SS Mont-Blanc was a cargo steamship that was built in Middlesbrough, England, in 1899 for a French shipping company. [1] On Thursday morning, December 6, 1917, she entered Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada , laden with a full cargo of highly volatile explosives.
The Aiguille du Midi (French pronunciation: [eɡɥij dy midi], "Needle at midday" [2]) is a 3,842-metre-tall (12,605 ft) mountain in the Mont Blanc massif within the French Alps. It is a popular tourist destination and can be directly accessed by cable car from Chamonix that takes visitors close to Mont Blanc. [3]