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 .
4-547: The Schmittenhöhe is a mountain, 1,965 m (AA) high, on the eastern edge of the Kitzbühel Alps . It is the local mountain of the district capital of Zell am See , from where a cable car was built in 1927 by Adolf Bleichert & Co. that runs to the summit. The cable car system has been renovated several times since. From the summit of the Schmittenhöhe there is a good view of over 30 three-thousanders as well as
8-596: 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
12-563: The lake of Zeller See , the river basin and the whole Saalach valley. The Schmittenhöhe has pistes for winter sports. From the Schmittenhöhe numerous long-distance flights may be made by paraglider into the Pinzgau region whose straight, east-west orientation enables long flights to be made. Metres above the Adriatic The gauging station in the Port of Trieste was established in 1875 by
16-593: 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 the Kronstadt Gauge of
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