Metres above the Adriatic ( Italian : Metri sopra l'Adriatico , German : Meter über Adria , Serbo-Croatian : Metara iznad Jadrana ) is the vertical datum used in Albania , Austria , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , Montenegro , North Macedonia , Serbia , and Slovenia to measure elevation , referring to the average water level of the Adriatic Sea at the Sartorio mole in the Port of Trieste .
6-622: The Jochköpfl is a mountain, 3,143 m (AA) , on the Windach-Brunnenkogel-Kamm , a subgroup of the Stubai Alps in Austria. The Jochköpfl is named after the col of Timmelsjoch and lies almost exactly on the border between the Austrian federal state of Tyrol and the autonomous Italian province of Bolzano- South Tyrol . The border runs about 150 metres east of the bench-mark at
12-657: A crossing of all the summits on the main chain of mountains including the one now called the Jochköpfl. Metres above the Adriatic The gauging station in the Port of Trieste was established in 1875 by the local observatory run by the military geographical institute of the Austro-Hungarian Army . The average water surface elevation at Molo Sartorio became the datum valid for the whole Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Whilst
18-559: A height of 3,050 metres. To the north is the Kitzkampferner glacier and, to the west, the more steeply inclined Rötenkarferner , which has shrunk significantly due to global warming . Neighbouring peaks are the 3,135-metre-high Schrakogel to the northwest, which is separated by a notch at 3,068 metres; the 3,060-metre-high Vordere Kitzkogel on the northeast arête ; and the Graslahnerspitze at 2,970 metres above sea level along
24-642: The former Yugoslavian states still use it, the Eastern Bloc successor states of Austria-Hungary like Hungary and Czechoslovakia after World War II switched to the Kronstadt Gauge of the Baltic Sea , which is 0.6747 m (2.214 ft) higher. Whilst for Austria the 1875 gauge is used as the datum, the states of former Yugoslavia use the 1900 gauge ( Nadmorska visina, m/nv ). In Albania (normal-orthometric height) they also refer to heights as 'metres above
30-629: The south arête, which is interrupted by two unimposing, intermediate tops, the Timmelsjochberg and Hochwarte . The southwest ridge runs towards the Timmelstal valley down into the Untere Wannenkar cirque . The Jochköpfl was probably first ascended by chamois hunters and state survey staff during the 1850s. There are no records of ascents purely for pleasure dating to the 19th century. However, on 22 August 1890, Ludwig Purtscheller undertook
36-537: The summit. A prominent ridge heads south for a good kilometre from the summit. To the southwest a 700-metre-long arête ends at the notch of the Rötenkarscharte at 2,832 metres. The Jochköpfl lies about 2½ kilometres north-northeast of the Timmelsjoch (2,478 m) and around 6 km as the crow flies northwest of St. Martin am Schneeberg , South Tyrol. To the west and north of the mountain, glaciers reach
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