Austria - National Park "Hohe Tauern"

"The core zone of the Hohe Tauern National Park is one of Central Europe's last post-glacial primary landscapes within the geologically unique formation of the "Tauernfenster", a huge tectonic window which gives insight to the deepest tectonic layer of the Eastern Alps. Covering an area of about 900 km2 (out of which 15% are glaciated offering a complete -inventory of glacial landscape features) in the border area of the federal provinces of Carinthia, Salzburg and the Tyrol, the whole national park is a vast, on the whole unspoilt natural landscape reaching from an altitude of 1 000m in the valleys to a height of the peaks well over 3000m above sea level including Austria's highest mountain, the Grossglockner (3.798m), Due to its geological and geo-morphological diversity, its bio-diversity as well as on account of the ecological and evolutionary processes constantly taking place here, the area is of exceptional universal value. Its diverse ecological conditions offer a living space to characteristic plant and anima: I communities including a number of highly specialized or endemic alpine species." Source: UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List

A beautiful postcard of Hohe Tauern National Park of Osterreich - Austria. Thanks to Anita of Austria.