Großglockner and Pasterze Glacier from the Kaiser Franz Josefs Höhe (Hohe Tauern National Park, Austria)
N 47° 04.539 E 012° 45.042
33T E 329240 N 5216025
The visitors platform at the Kaiser Franz Josefs Höhe in the middle of the Hohe Tauern National Park offers magnificent vistas over mountain ridge with Großglockner Mt. and also over Pasterze Glacier...
Waymark Code: WM786C
Location: Kärnten, Austria
Date Posted: 09/17/2009
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On the visitors platform at the Kaiser Franz Josefs Höhe you stand directly before Austria´s highest mountain, the Grossglockner (3 798 m), with a magnificent view of the longest glacier in the eastern Alps, the Pasterze Glacier.
The Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe is the touristic centre (and the highest point of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road) in the middle of Hohe Tauern National Park. The place is named after the visit of Kaiser Franz-Josef made here in 1856.