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Trnovo Forest Plateau

The 1881st highest mountain range in the world

1,247m

The Trnovo Forest Plateau (Slovene: Trnovski gozd) is a karst plateau that constitutes the extreme northwest end of the Dinaric Alps. The Trnovo Forest Plateau has a karst character, without surface watercourses and broken up by closed valleys, outcroppings, hills, caves, shafts, and smaller karst features: solution pans, rills, karrens, and other features. Significant karst features include ice caves. The vegetation inversion at Big Paradana Ice Cave (Slovene: Velika ledena jama v Paradani) in the eastern part of the plateau, measuring 385 meters (1, 263 ft) by 1,550 meters (5, 090 ft), is a locus classicus and in the past ice was harvested from it and exported via Gorizia and Trieste to Egypt. The Trnovo Forest Plateau has three nature reserves: Big Paradana Ice Cave Golak Peaks (1, 495 meters or 4, 905 feet) and Spruce Valley (Slovene: Smrekova draga, a karst depression) The Smrečje forest reserve The southern ridge of the Trnovo Forest Plateau is Čaven.

Location: Slovenia.

Mountain range data from Wikidata (CC0). Elevation is the height of the highest peak.

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