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alpine »
national park
VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
Sweeping mountain ridges, jagged
peaks, wild rivers, snow gum forests,
flower-filled meadows, and high
plains grasslands—even in a country
as vast and as rich in landscape as
Australia, the wide-open spaces of
Alpine National Park have a unique
natural grandeur.
The lookout at Fainters North ofers
views over the sloping peaks and
meadows of the Bogong High Plains.
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lauterbrunnen
SWITZERLAND
Lauterbrunnen is one of the Alps’
deepest valleys, guarded by the
great peaks of the Eiger, Mönch, and
Jungfrau. Rent a scooter and skirt
past the area’s velvety fields and
sparkling waterfalls to the base of the
Jungfrau Railway, which at 11,332 feet
(3,454 m) is Europe’s highest.Immense rock walls soar above the
meadows of the Lauterbrunnen Valley,
where visitors will find pleasant cafés
from which to view them.15
glacier
national park
NORTHERN MONTANA
Scenery in the 1,583 square miles
(4,100 sq km) of Glacier National Park
is so magnificent that it has been called
the “Crown of the Continent.” Ecosys-
tems from prairie to tundra provide
habitats for many hundreds of plants
and animals, while some 700 miles
(1,125 km) of trails help open the area
to almost two million visitors a year.Glacier (yellow avalanche) lilies at
Logan Pass in Glacier National Park«