The Albula Alps are separated from the Oberhalbstein Alps in the west by the Septimer Pass and the Julia valley ; from the Plessur Alps in the north-west by the Landwasser valley ; from the Silvretta group in the north-east by the Flüela Pass ; from the Bernina Alps in the south-east by the Maloja Pass and the Inn valley ( upper Engadin ).

On the north the upper Rhône valley separate them from the Bernese Alps and the Furka Pass and the upper Reuss valley separates them from the Urner Alps ; on the west the Simplon Pass separates them from the Pennine Alps ; on the north-east the Oberalp Pass and the Vorderrhein valley separate them from the Glarus Alps ; on the east the Splügen Pass separates them from the Central Eastern Alps ( Oberhalbstein Range ).

The Oberhalbstein Alps ( Italian: Alpi del Platta ) are a mountain range in the Alps of eastern Switzerland and northern Italy.

The Oberhalbstein Alps are drained by the rivers Hinterrhein, Julia, Liro and Mera.

The main peaks of the Oberhalbstein Alps are:

The Plessur Alps are separated from the Glarus Alps in the west by the Rhine valley ; from the Rätikon range in the north by the Landquart river valley ( Prättigau ); from the Albula Alps in the south-east by the Landwasser River valley ; from the Oberhalbstein Alps in the south by the Albula river valley.

2310 m .) is a high mountain pass in the canton of Graubünden in the Swiss Alps between the valleys of Bregaglia ( Bergell ) and Oberhalbstein ( Surses ).

Cunter ( Romansh, in German: Conters im Oberhalbstein ) is a municipality in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

Until 1943 Cunter was known as Conters im Oberhalbstein.

An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term " the Alps ", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.

At present the Alps are one of the more popular tourist destinations in the world with many resorts such Oberstdorf, in Bavaria, Saalbach in Austria, Davos in Switzerland, Chamonix in France, and Cortina d ' Ampezzo in Italy recording more than a million annual visitors.

Other villages in the Alps are considering becoming car free zones or limiting the number of cars for reasons of sustainability of the fragile Alpine terrain.

The lower regions and larger towns of the Alps are well-served by motorways and main roads, but higher mountain passes and byroads can be treacherous even in summer.

The lake absorbs huge amounts of eroded gravel and snowmelt that the river brings from the Alps, and the former swamps have become fruitful plains: they are known as the " vegetable garden of Switzerland ".

Hungary has three major geographic regions ( which are subdivided to seven smaller ones ): the Great Alföld, lying east of the Danube River ; the Transdanubia, a hilly region lying west of the Danube and extending to the Austrian foothills of the Alps ; and the North Hungarian Mountains, which is a mountainous and hilly country beyond the northern boundary of the Great Hungarian Plain.

In the Alps are also chromatic dulcimers with crossed strings, which are in a whole tone distance in every row.

Worldwide-known mountains in Italy are Matterhorn ( Cervino ), Monte Rosa, Gran Paradiso in the West Alps, and Bernina, Stelvio and Dolomites along the eastern side of the Alps.

The most densely populated areas are the Po Valley ( that accounts for almost a half of the national population ) and the metropolitan areas of Rome and Naples, while vast regions such as the Alps and Appennines highlands, the plateaus of Basilicata and the island of Sardinia are very sparsely populated.

Central Japan is marked by the convergence of the three mountain chains — the Hida, Kiso, and Akaishi mountains — that form the Japanese Alps ( Nihon Arupusu ), several of whose peaks are higher than 3, 000 meters.

An ancient glacial lake that formed in the Great Lakes region of North America, Lake Agassiz, is named after him, as are Mount Agassiz in California's Palisades, Mount Agassiz, in the Uinta Mountains, Agassiz Peak in Arizona and in his native Switzerland, the Agassizhorn in the Bernese Alps.

The Pyrenees are older than the Alps: their sediments were first deposited in coastal basins during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.

Mineral springs are abundant and remarkable, and especially noteworthy are the hot springs, of which the Alps are very deficient.

The glaciers are confined to the northern slopes of the central Pyrenees, and do not descend, like those of the Alps, far down into the valleys, but have their greatest lengths along the direction of the mountain chain.

The Pyrenees are relatively as rich in endemic species as the Alps, and among the most remarkable instances of that endemism is the occurrence of the monotypic genus Xatardia ( family Apiaceae ), only on a high alpine pass between the Val d ' Eynes and Catalonia.

Romania's Carpathians are differentiated into three ranges: the Eastern Carpathians, the Southern Carpathians or Transylvanian Alps, and the Western Carpathians.

Slate is an ideal, and durable material, while in the Swiss Alps roofs are made from huge slabs of stone, several inches thick.

Kew's collection of Alpine plants ( defined as those that grow above the tree-line in their locale-ground level at the poles rising to over 2000 metres in the Alps ), extends to over 7000 and as the Alpine house can only house around 200 at a time the ones on show are regularly rotated.

Transversals through the Alps were made possible with the use of hidden circular tunnels, which are called Spiral.

Their skiing resorts are becoming a budget alternative to the Alps.

Convinced that nothing could meet the challenges facing the Church except imperial intervention, a number of influential clergy and laity separated themselves from communion with Gregory VI or either of his two rivals and implored Emperor Henry III to cross the Alps and restore order.

Central Transylvanian Basin is separated from the Plain of Moldavia on the east by the Carpathian Mountains and separated from the Wallachian Plain on the south by the Transylvanian Alps

They are separated from the Cottian Alps in the east by the Col du Galibier and the upper Durance valley ; from the western Graian Alps ( Vanoise Massif ) in the north-east by the river Arc ; from the lower ranges Vercors Plateau and Chartreuse Mountains in the west by the rivers Drac and Isère.

The main chain of the Glarus Alps can be divided into six minor groups, separated from each other by passes, the lowest of which exceeds 7, 500 ft.

A characteristic in the orography of the Bernese Alps is, that whereas the western of that chain consists of a single series of summits with comparatively short projecting buttresses, the higher group presents a series of longitudinal ridges parallel to the axis of the main chain, and separated from each other by deep valleys that form the channels of great glaciers.

Subject to volcanism that has only subsided in the last 10, 000 years, these central mountains are separated from the Alps by the north-south trending Rhone River Basin.

Main chains of mountain ranges are traditionally designated in this way, and generally include the highest peaks of a range ; the Alps are something of an unusual case in that several significant groups of mountains are separated from the main chain by sizable distances.

The Paratethys was separated from the Tethys by the formation of the Alps, Carpathians, Dinarides, Taurus and Elburz mountains during the Alpine orogeny.

In the Tertiary period these mountain remnants came under heavy pressure as a result of plate tectonic processes during which the Alps were formed as the North American and Eurasian plates were separated.

It lies west of the Dauphiné Alps, from which it is separated by the rivers Drac and Isère.

Subject to volcanism that has subsided in the last 10, 000 years, these central mountains are separated from the Alps by a deep north-south cleft created by the Rhône River and known in French as the sillon rhodanien ( literally " the furrow of the Rhône ").

Three further disjunct populations occur in mountain conifer forests further south, one centered on the mountains of central and southeast Europe ( the Alps, the Carpathians and the Balkan Peninsula mountains ); another in the western Himalaya ; and the third in western China seaboard and separated from the northern population by a relatively small gap in the north centre of China.

The western border is the Reschen Pass, while on the east the range is separated from the Stubai Alps by the Timmelsjoch.

The mountain ranges of the Vienna Woods are the transition between the Eastern Alps and the Carpathians, separated by the Danube and some tectonic lines near to Vienna.

Lake Pukaki ( bottom centre ) and its neighbouring lakes are separated from the West Coast Region | West Coast by the Southern Alps.

These two halves are separated by the mountain chains of Pyrenees and Alps / Carpathians.

They form the south-western extremity of the Alps, separated from the Apennines by the Colle di Cadibona.

The Ortler Alps are separated from:

The Adamello-Presanella Group is separated from the Ortler Alps in the north by the Tonale Pass ; from the Bergamo Alps in the west by the Oglio valley ( Val Camonica ); from the Brenta Group in the east by the Campo Carlo Magno Pass and the river Sarca ; to the south it continues towards Lake Iseo.