DOLOMITES, THE

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DOLOMITES, THE , a mountain

district

DISTRICT

in the

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Tirolese Alps, though sometimes it is erroneously considered to form part of some other chain than the Alps. The distinguishing feature of this

district

DISTRICT

is that it is composed of magnesian limestone, which rises in peaks of a most singular degree of sharpness and streaked by veins of the most startling colours. Nowadays it has become well known to tourists, who, however, keep mainly to a few

great

GREAT

centres, though most of the more striking peaks were first ascended in the

late

LATE

sixties and early seventies of the 19th century by English mountaineers. Roughly speaking the Dolomite region lies between the Brenner railway from Franzensfeste to Trent (W.) and the road over the Monte Croce Pass from Innichen in the Drave valley by way of the Sexten glen and the Piave valley to Belluno and Feltre (E.). On the north it is limited by the railway line from Innichen to Franzenfeste, and on the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

by the railway and road from Trent to Feltre. The highest summit is the Marmolata (10,972 ft.), but far more typical are the Sorapiss, the Cimon della Pala, the Langkofel, the Pelmo, the Drei Zinnen, the Sass Moor and the Rosengarten (see Anna). Among the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

tourist resorts are St Ulrich (in the Groden valley), San Martino di Castrozza (near Primiero), Caprile and Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Besides the Dolomites included in the above region there are several other Dolomite groups (though less extensive) in the Alps. N.W. of Trent rises the Tosa group, while in Switzerland there are the Piz d'Aela group, S.W. of Bergiin on the Albula Pass route, and the curious little group N. of the

village

VILLAGE

of Splugen, besides other isolated peaks between the St Gotthard and Lukmanier Passes. In Dauphine itself (the

home

of the geologist Dolomieu) the mountain districts of the Royannais, of the Vercors, and of the Devoluy (all S.W. of

Grenoble

GRENOBLE

) are more or less Dolomitic in character.
See J. Gilbert and G. C. Churchill, The Dolomite Mountains (London, 1864) ; Miss L. Tuckett, Zigzagging among Dolomites (London, 1871) ; P. Grohmann, Wanderungen in den Dolomiten (Vienna, 1877) ; L. Sinigaglia, Climbing Reminiscences of the Dolomites (London, 1896) ; The Climbs of Norman-Neruda (London, 1899) ; V.

Wolf

von Glanvell, Dolomitenfuhrer (Vienna, 1898) ; J. Ball, Western Alps (new ed., London, 1898, section 9, Rte. P. French Dolomites). (W. A. B. C.)

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