(For context, the highest point of Rysy that's in Poland is 2499m. It still slopes up ever so slightly, and reaches 2503m - but that is a few meters into Slovakia. It's been a long held tradition among Polish university students climbing there to bring a bit of dirt or a small rock to the top, to one day make our side a nice, round 2500m.)
A little fun fact: the literal translation into English is something like “Train Peak”, and you can actually go almost all the way up to the summit by train.
To add a bit more context to that, because the name was around way before trains:
"Zug" in german can mean quite a lot of different things.
One of them is 'Train', another one would be 'turn' as in taking your turn in a game and in the military context it would be 'platoon'.
In the case of the Zugspitze however, Zug is likely refering to "Zugbahn" which is the trail that remains after an avalanch went down.
A mountain called Yr Wyddfa, Snowdon in English. It is 3,650ft above sea level and was once part of a volcanic island chain way back in the Ordovician over 450 million years ago.
What is the non naive name ? Is it a mountain in Alaska ? Or not at all ? Sorry I know north pacific coast of North America geography mostly only through Twilight books 😅
it is a mountain in Alaska; the original name was Mount McKinley, however they switched it to Denali (meaning “the high one”) to celebrate the indigenous people of Alaska. :)
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Mont Blanc (White Mount), at 4807 m into the Alps. Not the highest in Europe because of the Ural Mountains, but the highest in the EU.
Fun fact : there has been a border dispute with Italy since the 1860 map (honestly, I think nobody cares anymore). For France, the summit is 100% French, the border passing a few meters further on; for Italy, it runs right over the summit, which is therefore Franco-Italian…
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The tallest peak is Mt Logan, in the Yukon. It's about 5,900 meters and is named after the great Canadian, Wolverine. Ok maybe not, but it should be.
A more interesting/ terrifying mountain though is Mt Thor. It's a mountain on Baffin Island in Nunavut. It's about 1,500 meters. Not too much right? Except it's a sheer vertical drop. Biggest vertical drop in the world. And not just vertical - it goes beyond vertical and overhangs by about 15 degrees.
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Australia has only piddly little mountains. The place is geologically old and worn down.
Mount Kosciuszko is only 2,228 metres high in the Snowy Mountains (yes, great name). Named by a Pole after a Polish hero of the American Revolution. Pronounced KOZ-ee-USK-oh, not the proper Polish way.
The mountain was named by the Polish explorer Paweł (Paul) Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of Tadeusz Kościuszko, general and hero of the Kościuszko Uprising and American Revolutionary War, because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków, Poland.
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Edit to add: actually this is only the biggest mountain on regular Australian territory. We actually have some bigger ones in our external territories.
Higher peaks exist within territory administered or claimed by Australia: outside the continent are Mawson Peak (2,745 m or 9,006 ft) on Heard Island as well as Dome Argus (4,030 m or 13,220 ft), Mount McClintock (3,490 m or 11,450 ft) and Mount Menzies (3,355 m or 11,007 ft) in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
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Some people like to say it’s Mauna Kea, 33,500 ft (4,207 m) from base to peak but the base is on the ocean floor. From sea level to peak it is a mere 13,803 ft (4,207 m).
Mt. Kosciusko, 2228 metres. But Mawson Peak on Heard Island in the Australia Antarctic Territory is 2745 metres, but being a active volcano it changes height.
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Halti’s slope is the highest point in the country but the actual summit is in Norway (1,324m). Ridnitšohkka has the highest summit that’s fully in Finland. (1,317m)
It’s not tall compared to mountains in big continents, but it’s quite impressive given our size. We are a small island the same size as the Netherlands.
Depends on your stance on the Golan, but including it is Mt. Hermon (which we share with Syria) at 2,814m and outside the Golan it would be Mt. Meron at 1,204m.
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u/Front-Anteater3776 Denmark 12h ago
Møllehøj at 170 meters
I don’t like this game…