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  2. Spitzingsee - Wikipedia

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    The Spitzingsee is located about five kilometers south of the Schliersee and a few hundred meters south of the Spitzingsattels at an altitude of 1084 m in the Schliersee Mountains in the Bavarian Alps. With a surface area of 28.3 ha (0.283 km 2), it is one of the largest mountain lakes in Bavaria. The lake's maximum depth is 16.3 m (53 ft) in ...

  3. Rotwand (Bavaria) - Wikipedia

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    The Rotwand ("Red Wall") is a 1,884 m high peak in the Mangfall Mountains in Bavaria, the highest summit in the Spitzingsee region and one of the most popular of Munich 's local mountains (Hausberge). The summit may be reached in an easy hike from the lake of Spitzingsee on various routes (e. g. through the Pfanngraben gorge with its ...

  4. Spitzingsee (village) - Wikipedia

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    Spitzingsee [Ort] is a village (Kirchdorf) within Marktgemeinde Schliersee which is part of Landkreis Miesbach. The population amounts to 200 plus tourists. The name derives from Lake Spitzingsee, and the human settlement is located at its eastern bank. The nearest railway station is Fischhausen-Neuhaus in Neuhaus (Schliersee municipality; 7 km).

  5. Climate of Europe - Wikipedia

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    An image of the Gulf Stream's path and its related branches The average number of days per year with precipitation The average amount of sunshine yearly (hours). The climate of western Europe is strongly conditioned by the Gulf Stream, which keeps mild air (for the latitude) over Northwestern Europe in the winter months, especially in Ireland, the United Kingdom and coastal Norway.

  6. Geography of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Geography of Ireland. Ireland is an island in Northern Europe in the north Atlantic Ocean. The island, of up to around 480 km (300 mi) north-south, and 275 km (171 mi) east-west, lies near the western edge of the European continental shelf, part of the Eurasian Plate. Its main geographical features include low central plains surrounded by ...

  7. Aran Islands - Wikipedia

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    The film's depiction of man's courage and repudiation of the intellect appealed to Germany's Nazi party, who noticed it during the Berlin Festival in 1935. [ citation needed ] John Millington Synge 's The Aran Islands is a work that straddles these first two modes, being both a personal account and also an attempt at preserving information ...

  8. Schliersee - Wikipedia

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    Schliersee is located on the northeastern shore of the lake of the same name and is a well known resort in the Bavarian Alps. Schliersee provides scenic views of the surrounding mountains, in particular Aiplspitz, Jägerkamp (German), Brecherspitz and Bodenschneid, all belonging to the Mangfallgebirge range.

  9. 1976 British Isles heatwave - Wikipedia

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    35.9 °C (96.6 °F), recorded at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on 3 July 1976. A period of unusually hot summer weather occurred in the British Isles during the summer of 1976. At the same time, there was a severe drought on the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. [2][3] It was one of the driest, sunniest and warmest summers (June/July/August ...