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ALPS

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From: Young Students Learning Library
Date: 19960101
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The Alps form the largest mountain range in Europe. They curve for 700 miles (1,127 km) from the French Riviera coast, along the French- Italian border, through Switzerland and Austria, and into Slovenia and Croatia. Mont Blanc, 15,771 feet (4,807 m) high, is the highest peak in France and the highest in the Alps. (See the map with the article on EUROPE.)

Have you read the book Heidi by Johanna Spyri? Heidi lived in Switzerland with her grandfather and his goats in a high pasture called an alp. This Swiss word gave the mountains their name. Many of the people in the Alps ...

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