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The Great St Bernard Pass is located near the western end of the Valais Alps, the next pass to the west, Col Ferret, marking the transition with the Mont Blanc massif.In that area, between Mont Dolent and Mont Vélan, the main crest of the Alps barely reaches 3,000 metres, unlike in the much higher section of the Valais Alps east of Mont Vélan and Grand Combin.
The Great St Bernard Tunnel (French: Tunnel du Grand Saint-Bernard, Italian: Traforo del Gran San Bernardo, German: Grosser-Sankt-Bernhard-Tunnel) is a road tunnel complementing the Great St Bernard Pass, linking Martigny (in the Swiss canton of Valais) with Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses (in the Aosta Valley, in north western Italy).
As late as 1905, the highest pass over the main chain that had a carriage road was the Great St Bernard (2,472 m (8,111 ft)), but three still higher passes over side ridges have roads—the col de l'Iseran, the Stelvio Pass (2,760 m (9,040 ft)), the Col du Galibier (2,658 m (8,721 ft)), in the Dauphiné Alps, and the Umbrail Pass (2,512 m ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Mountain passes in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. ... Great St Bernard Pass; Col de Bretolet; C.
Santa Maria Val Müstair GR - Stelvio Pass IT: 1901: 2501: 12%: road Unterer Hauenstein: Solothurn/Basel-Landschaft: Olten SO - Sissach BL 691: 6%: road Vue des Alpes: Neuchâtel: Neuchâtel - La Chaux-de-Fonds 1283: 10%: road/motorway tunnel Wasserfluh: St. Gallen: Lichtensteig - St. Peterzell 843: 10%: road Weissenstein: Solothurn: Oberdorf ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Great St Bernard Pass; San Bernardino Pass; ... Passwang Pass; Pauvres Pass (Bex, Switzerland)
St Bernard Pass may refer to: Great St Bernard Pass crosses the Valais Alps between Martigny, Switzerland and Aosta, Italy Little St Bernard Pass lies between Mont Blanc and the Graian Alps, connecting Bourg St Maurice, France to Courmayeur, Italy
St. Anton: 1,105 metres (3,625 ft) In the Alps between Muolen, St. Gallen and Ruppen Pass: Belchenflue: 1,099 metres (3,606 ft) In the Jura between the cantons of Basel-Land and Solothurn Balmberg: 1,078 metres (3,537 ft) In the Jura in the canton of Solothurn between Welschenrohr and Günsberg: Raten: 1,077 metres (3,533 ft)