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TATRA MOUNTAINS (Hungarian Tarczal)

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TATRA MOUNTAINS (Hungarian Tarczal) or the High Tatra, the highest See also:

GROUP

group in the central Carpathians, and the central group of the whole Carpathian See also:

SYSTEM

system. They extend between the See also:

rivers. Waag, Arva, Dunajec and Poprad, and See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form a sharply defined and isolated group, rising abruptly like a gigantic See also:

wall to an See also:

ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of over 8400 ft. in the midst of a high See also:

plateau situated 2600 ft. above See also:

sea-level. The Tatra Mountains extend through the Hungarian counties of Liptb and Szepes, and with their See also:

NORTHERN

northern extremities also through the See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian crownland of See also:

Galicia, and have a length of 40 M. and a width varying between 9 and 15 M. The mean altitude is between 6000 and 7500 ft. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal peaks are:—the See also:

FRANZ, ROBERT (1815-1892)

Franz-Josef or Gerlsford (Hung. Gerlachfalvi-Cstics, 8737 ft.), the highest in the Carpathian system; the Lomnitz (Lomniczi-Csics, 8642 ft.); the Eisthal (Jegvolgyi-Csiccs, 863o ft.); the Tatraspitze or Hohe Visoka (8415 ft.); the Kesmark (8226 ft.); the Meeraugenspitze (Tengerszem-Csiccs, 8210 ft.); the Schlagendorf (Szalllki-Cs1ecs, 8o5o ft.); and the Krivan (8190 ft.). The principal valleys, which See also:

lie at an altitude of 2600 to 3250 ft. above sea-level, and See also:

PRESENT

present some of the wildest scenery, are: the Kohlbach Valley, the Felka Valley, the Valley of Mengsdorf, the Javorina Valley, the Kotlina Valley, in which is the stalactite cavern of See also:

Bela, and the Bielka Valley. One of the characteristics of the Tatra are the numerous See also:

mountain lakes (112 in number), called by the See also:

PEOPLE

people " eyes of the sea." The largest of them are the See also:

Lake of Csorba, in the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

PART

part of the group, which has an See also:

AREA

area of 50 acres; the Grosser Fischsee in the Bielka Valley; and the Wielki Staw, with an area of 85 acres, the largest of the Five See also:

POLISH

Polish Lakes, which lie in the Rortoka Valley.

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