Metres above the Adriatic ( Italian : Metri sopra l'Adriatico , German : Meter über Adria , Serbo-Croatian : Metara iznad Jadrana ) is the vertical datum used in Albania , Austria , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , Montenegro , North Macedonia , Serbia , and Slovenia to measure elevation , referring to the average water level of the Adriatic Sea at the Sartorio mole in the Port of Trieste .
5-690: The Großer Beil , is a 2,309 m (AA) high mountain at the head of the Wildschönau valley in the Austrian state of Tyrol . It belongs to the Kitzbühel Alps and is the highest summit on the ridge that separates the Wildschönau from the neighbouring valley of the Alpbach to the west. Around 500 metres north is the 2,189 m high Seekopf and a further 500 metres beyond that
10-590: Is the Kleine Beil at 2,197 m. The next mountain to the south is the 2,216 m high Gressenstein . On the other side of the valley is the Wildkarspitze (1,961 m). The Großer Beil is a popular hiking mountain and may be reached on marked trails from the north or south. The usual start point is the Schönangeralm (1,173 m) at the head of the Wildschönau valley behind Auffach. In winter
15-532: The 1900 gauge ( Nadmorska visina, m/nv ). In Albania (normal-orthometric height) they also refer to heights as 'metres above the Adriatic', but use a specific tide gauge in the port of Durrës . The individual countries using this datum abbreviate it in different ways depending on their local language, as follows: 'Metres above the Adriatic' may be abbreviated in English to m AA In Austria orthometric height
20-769: The Großer Beil is a popular ski tour . The name of the mountain is not derived from the German word Beil (="hatchet") but from a dialect word for a place near which animals are held during a hunt. Metres above the Adriatic The gauging station in the Port of Trieste was established in 1875 by the local observatory run by the military geographical institute of the Austro-Hungarian Army . The average water surface elevation at Molo Sartorio became
25-601: The datum valid for the whole Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Whilst the former Yugoslavian states still use it, the Eastern Bloc successor states of Austria-Hungary like Hungary and Czechoslovakia after World War II switched to the Kronstadt Gauge of the Baltic Sea , which is 0.6747 m (2.214 ft) higher. Whilst for Austria the 1875 gauge is used as the datum, the states of former Yugoslavia use
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