Oberland
Americannoun
noun
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Elsewhere in Switzerland, above the resort of Kandersteg, in the Bernese Oberland region, a rockface has become unstable, threatening the village.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025
In Valais and Bernese Oberland, tourists heading for ski holidays were hit by the disruption.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025
I went to the Bernese Oberland and Interlaken, to Graubünden in the east, to Valais in the south, to Ticino in the southeast, to Geneva, Neuchâtel, Basel, Bern, Vals.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2015
Old military bunkers in the Bernese Oberland now serve as maximum-security vaults for nervous Europeans.
From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2010
From this lake we might turn our course easterly, and soon find ourselves amid the glacial regions of the Oberland Alps—scenes full of deep and thrilling interest.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward
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