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unusual facts about Above mean sea level



Andrist

There are two mountains called Andrist in Switzerland: Wild Andrist (means "wild Andrist") has an altitude of 2849 m asl; Zahm Andrist (means "tame Andrist") has an altitude of 2648 m asl.

Bungsberg telecommunications tower

The Bungsberg telecommunications tower (also known as the Fernmeldeturm Schönwalde) is a 179-metre-high telecommunications tower situated on the Bungsberg, a hill which (at 168 metres above mean sea level) is the highest point in the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Sooty Tern

The Field Museum, for example, has a male specimen which was found exhausted on August 2, 1933 on the slopes of Mount Cameroon above Buea, about 1000 m (3,500 ft) ASL, after foul weather had hit the Gulf of Guinea.

Transverse Ranges

SR 18 and SR 38, none of these passes are at high elevations, with Cajon Pass being at a modest 4,190 ft (1,277 m) above mean sea level; this means that snow is less of a factor here than in the moderate to high mountain passes to the north like Donner Pass.

Tryvannstårnet

Tryvannstårnet is an 118 metre (387 feet) tall broadcasting tower near Oslo, located 529 metres (1,736 feet) above mean sea level on the summit of Tryvannshøyden hill overlooking lake Tryvann.


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Altitude

Regions on the Earth's surface (or in its atmosphere) that are high above mean sea level are referred to as high altitude.

Araku Valley

Shimiliguda railway station is located at an altitude of 996 meters above mean sea level.

Ashtead

Elevations range from the south west crest of the village at 100m AOD (above mean sea level) to 45m AOD at the Leatherhead border outflow of The Rye that rises at a pond at Little Park Farm, Farm Lane, Ashtead.

Myrmica elmesi

This zone where the species is distributed is a transitional zone between sub temperate and temperate Himalaya and geographically it penetrates in to the Palearctic zone (whose boundary in Southern Asia is largely altitudinal, where an altitude of 2000–2500 meters above mean sea level forms the boundary between Palearctic and Indo-Malayan ecozones).