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 .
4-772: The Reißkofel is, at 2,371 metres above the Adriatic (7,779 ft), the highest mountain of the Gailtal Alps east of the Lienz Dolomites . It is situated in the centre of the Gailtal range, part of the Southern Limestone Alps , in the Austrian state of Carinthia . The steep massif is mainly composed of Corallian Limestone and Dolomite . It is a dominant peak, having a prominence of some 1,390 m (4,560 ft), as it
8-543: Is situated amongst much lower peaks. It lies between the Drava valley in the north, near the town of Greifenburg , and the Gail valley to the south, both of which it dominates, towering over the valleys some 1,700 m (5,600 ft) below it. The mountain is the culminating point of a long ridge, and is steep and rocky on both its northern and southern faces. It was first climbed in 1848 by Johann Festin von Wald. Metres above
12-627: 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 the Adriatic', but use a specific tide gauge in the port of Durrës . The individual countries using this datum abbreviate it in different ways depending on their local language, as follows: 'Metres above
16-701: 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 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
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