Hohe Tauern

American  

[hoh-uh tou-ern] / ˈhoʊ ə ˈtaʊ ərn /

noun

1. an Alpine mountain range in S Austria. Highest peak, Grossglockner, 12,457 feet (3,799 meters).

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Example Sentences

As the morning fog lifted, the jagged peaks of the Hohe Tauern mountain range — including the mighty Grossglockner, Austria’s highest mountain at 12,460 feet — slowly emerged.

From New York Times

To the north of the valley of the Drave the duchy is occupied by the Hohe Tauern and the primitive Alps of Carinthia and Styria, which belong to the central zone of the Eastern Alps.

From Project Gutenberg

For they were "stepping westward;" but in order to get to the Gross-Venediger I must make a detour to the east, through the Pusterthal, and come up through the valley of the Isel to the great chain of mountains called the Hohe Tauern.

From Project Gutenberg