Pennine-alps meaning

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A range of the Alps extending southwest to northeast along the Swiss-Italian border from Great St. Bernard Pass to Simplon Pass. It rises to 4,634 m (15,203 ft) at Monte Rosa.
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Division of the W Alps, along the Swiss-Italian border, northeast of the Graian Alps: highest peak, c. 15,200 ft (4,633 m)
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The western range of the Alps that covers part of Italy and Switzerland.
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Pennine-alps Sentence Examples

  • More important are the rivers that descend from the main chain of the Graian and Pennine Alps and join the Po on its left bank.

  • The first group of immigrants is said to have crossed the Pennine Alps (Great St Bernard) into the valley of the Po.

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