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The following are images from various Alps-related articles on Wikipedia.
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Image 1The St. Bartholomew's chapel on the Königssee in Bavaria is a popular tourist destination. (from Alps)
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Image 4Louis Agassiz's studies of the Unteraar Glacier in the 1840s showed that it moved at 100 m (328 ft) per year. (from Alps)
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Image 7The Sphinx Tunnel connecting Jungfraujoch railway station to the Sphinx Observatory, through a glacier at the Jungfraujoch. (from Alps)
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Image 9Satellite photo showing the Alps in winter, at the top of the Italian peninsula. (from History of the Alps)
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Image 11Herding sheep in Austria (from Alps)
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Image 14The Alps seen from space (from Geography of the Alps)
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Image 17Life zones of the Alps (from Climate of the Alps)
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Image 18This illustration of the glacier systems of the Mont Blanc massif by Alexander Keith Johnston was first published 1848 in The Physical Atlas. (from Alps)
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Image 20Compressed metamorphosed Tethyan sediments and their oceanic basement are sandwiched between the tip of the Matterhorn (Italian-Swiss border), which consists of gneisses originally part of the African plate, and the base of the peak, which is part of the Eurasian plate. (from Alps)
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Image 21Château de Chillon, a castle on the north shore of Lake Geneva, against the backdrop of the Dents du Midi (from Alps)
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Image 22Teufelsbrücke (Devil's Bridge) on the route to the Gotthard Pass; the currently used bridge from 1958 over the first drivable bridge from 1830 (from Alps)
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Image 24Horace Bénédict de Saussure shown in, Descent from Mont-Blanc, by Christian von Mechel (from Alps)
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Image 27Troops under Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov crossing the Alps in 1799, by Vasily Surikov (from Alps)
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Image 29Young alpine ibex. When fully grown the horns of this male will be about one metre wide. (from Alps)
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Image 30Alpine chalet being built in Haute-Maurienne (Savoy), the use of thick pieces of orthogneiss (4–7 cm) is by the strict architectural regulations in the region bordering the national parks of Vanoise-Grand Paradis. (from Alps)
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Image 31Zentralbahn Interregio train following the Lake Brienz shoreline, near Niederried in Switzerland (from Alps)
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Image 34Chamonix, The Monument of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Jacques Balmat, in honor of their climb of Mont Blanc (from History of the Alps)
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Image 36Tectonic map of southern Europe and the Middle East, showing tectonic structures of the western Alpide mountain belt (from Alpine orogeny)
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Image 39Southern pre-alpine lakes like Lake Garda are characterised by warmer microclimates than the surrounding areas (from Alps)
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Image 41The Alps extend in an arc from France in the south and west to Slovenia in the east, and from Monaco in the south to Germany in the north. (from Alps)
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Image 44The Aletsch Glacier with pine trees growing on the hillside (2007; the surface is 180 m (590 ft) lower than 150 years ago) (from Alps)
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Image 45The Nazis hid looted art in salt mines at Altaussee, such as the Early Netherlandish Ghent Altarpiece which sustained significant damage. (from Alps)