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The following is a sortable table of the 37 peaks of continental France with a topographical prominence of at least 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).. This table includes all Ultras with prominence of at least 1,500 m (4,900 ft) within continental France.
Pic de Finestrelles is a mountain located in the Oriental Pyrenees, on the border of France and Spain.It has an altitude of 2,826 metres (9,272 ft) above sea level. [1]This peak is notable for being the mountain from which the world record for the most distant photographed landscape on Earth was taken.
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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.
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 the sum of its prominence and col. The column "Col location" denotes the pass where the col height is located.
This is the key col for Corno di Ban (3,028 m), which, thanks to the retreat of the glacier, now appears on the list with a prominence of 311 m. Given the inaccuracies, the list includes (unranked) summits with estimated prominences down to 7 meter below the cut-off (293 m), many of which may very well have a real prominence exceeding 300 m.
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All the French parts of the Mont Blanc massif, plus the neighbouring Aiguille Rouges range, have been listed as a Zone naturelle d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique (ZNIEFF). This does not give regulatory protection, but is a recognition of the outstanding biodiversity of the area, and of its landscape, geomorphological ...