Eastern Alps off Geography, Mountains, Europe, Alps

Eastern Alps

The Eastern Alps are referred to as part of the Eastern Alps. These lead east of an imaginary line
from Lake Constance along the Rhine over the Splügen Pass to Lake Como and Lake Maggiore. The Piz Bernina is marked with
4052 meters the highest mountain and at the same time the only four-thousander in the Eastern Alps.
In contrast to the Western Alps, the Eastern Alps and their passes are lower and gentler, with the
Alpine arc is less curved in the east and is divided into several individual mountain ranges.
That is why the Eastern Alps are wider and have 2 to 4 passes more than the Western Alps.

The Eastern Alps have their beginnings in Eastern Switzerland and extend lengthwise through the whole of Austria - from the
Vorarlberg through to Burgenland. These Alps are a blanket and fold mountain range in the western alpine
Covers only emerge at the edge and in tectonic windows. The Klagenfurt Basin represents the largest
inner-Alpine subsidence field consisting of standing pillars of the basement, moraines and tertiary
conglomerate ridge of the Ice Age Drau Glacier, lakes and moors. The Vienna basin also has a
striking point. Here you can see a former transition between the Alps and the
admire the Carpathians.

The Eastern Alps can be found in the following countries:

Austria; highest mountain Großglockner in the Glockner group
Italy; highest mountain Piz Bernina (La Spalla or Spedla) in the Bernina massif
Switzerland; highest mountain in the Eastern Alps Piz Bernina (main summit) in the Bernina massif
Germany; highest mountain Zugspitze in the Wetterstein Mountains
Slovenia; highest mountain Triglav in Julian Alps
Liechtenstein; highest mountain: Grauspitz in the Rätikon.