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 .
5-583: The Mittagskogel (German) or Kepa (Slovenian) has an elevation of 2,145 metres (7,037 ft) aA , and is thus the third highest mountain in the Karawanks range, after Hochstuhl / Stol and the Vertratscha / Vrtača . It is located on the border between Slovenia and Austria . The massif consisting of main dolomite and Dachstein limestone beds rises between the Slovene Sava valley in
10-525: 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 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
15-668: The military geographical institute of the Austro-Hungarian Army . The average water surface elevation at Molo Sartorio became 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
20-634: The normal route leads to the summit. Mentioned as Copan mons in a 1650 map, the German oronym Mittagskogel (Midday Peak) denotes the position of the sun above the summit at noon. The mountain is also called Jepa in the Carinthian Slovene dialect. Metres above the Adriatic The gauging station in the Port of Trieste was established in 1875 by the local observatory run by
25-646: The south and the Austrian Drau basin in the north. Its steep northern face, resembling a rocky pyramid with a rounded summit is a landmark in Carinthia . The mountain is usually climbed from the village of Belca on its Slovenian side. An Alpine club hut , the Berta Hut , located at an elevation of 1,567 m (5,141 ft), can be reached from the Austrian municipality of Finkenstein ; from here,
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