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Glocknergruppe with Stausee Margaritze |
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Panoramic view over the Margaritze in W direction. This hydropower reservoir, completed in 1953, is fed by the melt water from Pasterze, one of the largest glaciers of Austria, the proglacial lake of which appears in the right centre of the photo. Großglockner (3798 m), the highest mountain of Austria, is shown in the right background.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Sunday 5 July 2020 by Martin Mergili
- Keywords
- alpine vegetation, artificial dam, glacial lake, glacial processes, high-mountain ecosystems, hydraulic engineering, lake, metamorphic rock, mountainscape, mountaintop, non-tropical montane forest, power plant, snowscape, Zonobiome VI
- Visits and license
- 10637 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license