Alpine may refer to any
mountainous
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher th ...
region. It may also refer to:
Places
Europe
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Alps
The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Sw ...
, a European mountain range
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Alpine states
The term Alpine states or Alpine countries refers to the territory of eight countries associated with the Alpine region, as defined by the Alpine Convention of 1991: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerl ...
, which overlap with the European range
Australia
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Alpine, New South Wales, a Northern Village
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Alpine National Park
The Alpine National Park is a national park located in the Central Highlands and Alpine regions of Victoria, Australia. The national park is located northeast of Melbourne. It is the largest National Park in Victoria, and covers much of the hig ...
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Alpine Shire
The Alpine Shire is a local government area in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia, located in the north-east part of the state. It covers an area of and in 2022 had a population of 13,235.
It includes the towns of Bright, Dinner Plain, ...
, a local government area in Victoria
New Zealand
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Alpine Lake / Ata Puai, a lake in the West Coast Region of New Zealand
United States
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Alpine, DeKalb County, Alabama, an unincorporated community
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Alpine, Talladega County, Alabama, an unincorporated community
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Alpine (plantation), a historic plantation house in Talladega County, Alabama
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Alpine, Alaska, an unincorporated community
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Alpine, Arizona
Alpine is a census-designated place in Apache County, Arizona, United States, in Bush Valley in the east central part of the state. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 145. It is located near the eastern border of the state.
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Alpine, California
Alpine is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Cuyamaca Mountains of San Diego County, California. Alpine had a population of 14,696 at the 2020 census, up from 14,236 at the 2010 census. The town is largely surrounded by the Cleveland Nation ...
, a census-designated place (CDP) in San Diego County
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Alpine, Los Angeles County, California
Alpine, more fully Alpine Springs and also called Harold, was an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the List of the most pop ...
, a former unincorporated community also known as Harold
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Alpine County, California
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Lake Alpine, California
Lake Alpine is an unincorporated community in Alpine County, California. It is located on the north shore of Lake Alpine
Lake Alpine is a reservoir in Alpine County, California, formed by Alpine Dam on Silver Creek. It is located east of ...
, an unincorporated community
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Alpine, Georgia
Alpine is an unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia, Chattooga County, in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. The community is located on the northwest side of the Broomtown Valley in northwest Georgia, southeast of Menl ...
, an unincorporated community
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Alpine, Indiana
Alpine is an unincorporated community in Columbia Township, Fayette County, Indiana.
History
The first sawmill in Columbia Township was built at Alpine in 1814. Alpine was laid out as a town in about 1832.
By 1885, Alpine contained a sawmill, a ...
, an unincorporated community
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Alpine Township, Michigan
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Alpine, Mississippi
Alpine is an unincorporated community in Union County, Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; t ...
, an unincorporated community
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Alpine, New Jersey
Alpine is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, approximately north of Midtown Manhattan. It is the easternmost community in New Jersey.
As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 1,849, , a borough
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Alpine, Oregon
Alpine is an unincorporated rural community and census-designated place in Benton County, Oregon, United States. It is west of Monroe off Oregon Route 99W. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 171.
History
Alpine was so named because ...
, an unincorporated community
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Alpine, Tennessee
Alpine is a small unincorporated community in Overton County, Tennessee, United States. It is served by the ZIP Code of 38543, for which the ZCTA had a population of 497 at the 2000 census.
Alpine is part of the Cookeville, Tennessee Micro ...
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Alpine, Texas
Alpine ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Brewster County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,905 at the 2010 census. The town has an elevation of , and the surrounding mountain peaks are over above sea level. The university, hosp ...
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Alpine, Utah
Alpine is a city on the northeastern edge of Utah County, Utah. The population was 10,251 at the time of the 2020 census. Alpine has been one of the many quickly-growing cities of Utah since the 1970s, especially in the 1990s. This city is th ...
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Alpine, Virginia
Rocky Point is an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the ...
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Alpine, King County, Washington
Alpine was a town in the Cascade Mountains, near Skykomish, Washington. Founded in the late 19th century and originally named Nippon, it was first built to house Japanese railway workers. Another nearby railway town, Corea, housed Korean wor ...
, a former town abandoned in 1929
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Alpine, Skagit County, Washington
Alpine was a village located on the shores of Lake Cavanaugh, in Skagit County, Washington. A very brief reference to it is found in ''An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties'', by Elizan M. Wallace, published by Interstate Publis ...
, two former villages, one each in the 19th and 20th centuries
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Alpine, Wyoming
Alpine is a town in Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 828 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Alpine is located at the southern end of the Snake River Canyon where the Snake River enters Palisades Reservoir. The town is also ...
, a town
Lakes
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Lake Alpine
Lake Alpine is a reservoir in Alpine County, California, formed by Alpine Dam on Silver Creek. It is located east of Bear Valley in the Sierra Nevada range. It sits at 7,303 feet (2,227 m) above mean sea level and is a popular spot fo ...
, a lake in Alpine County, California
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Alpine Lake (Marin County, California)
Alpine Lake is a reservoir in Marin County, California. Formed by Alpine Dam, it provides water to the Marin Municipal Water District. Below the dam lies Kent Lake.Alpine Lake (Central Sawtooth Wilderness)
Alpine Lake is an alpine lake in Custer County, Idaho, United States, located high in the Sawtooth Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is approximately southwest of Stanley.
A trail from the Redfish Lake Creek trailhe ...
, a glacial lake in Custer County, Idaho
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Alpine Lake (Northern Sawtooth Wilderness)
Alpine Lake is an alpine lake in Custer County, Idaho, United States, located high in the Sawtooth Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is approximately southwest of Stanley. A trail from the Iron Creek trailhead and ca ...
, a glacial lake in Custer County, Idaho
Science and technology
Biology
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Alpine (goat), a breed of domestic goat
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Alpine plant
Alpine plants are plants that grow in an alpine climate, which occurs at high elevation and above the tree line. There are many different plant species and taxa that grow as a plant community in these alpine tundra. These include perennial grass ...
, plants that grow at high elevations
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Erebia
''Erebia'' is a Holarctic genus of brush-footed butterflies, family Nymphalidae. Most of the about 90–100 species (see also below) are dark brown or black in color, with reddish-brown to orange or more rarely yellowish wing blotches or ban ...
'' or Alpine butterfly, a genus of butterflies common in the Rocky Mountains of North America
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Parnassius'' or Alpine butterfly, a genus of butterflies in Eurasia
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Alpine fir
Alpine may refer to any mountainous region. It may also refer to:
Places Europe
* Alps, a European mountain range
** Alpine states, which overlap with the European range
Australia
* Alpine, New South Wales, a Northern Village
* Alpine National P ...
(''Abies lasiocarpa'', or subalpine fir), a tree
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Alpine newt
The alpine newt (''Ichthyosaura alpestris'') is a species of newt native to continental Europe and introduced to Great Britain and New Zealand. Adults measure and are usually dark grey to blue on the back and sides, with an orange belly and thro ...
Computing
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Alpine (email client)
Alpine is a free software email client developed at the University of Washington.
Alpine is a rewrite of the Pine Message System that adds support for Unicode and other features. Alpine is meant to be suitable for both inexperienced email users ...
, a free software email client
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Alpine Linux, a Linux distribution
Earth sciences
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Alpine climate
Alpine climate is the typical weather (climate) for elevations above the tree line, where trees fail to grow due to cold. This climate is also referred to as a mountain climate or highland climate.
Definition
There are multiple definitions o ...
, climate that is typical to higher altitudes
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Alpine tundra
Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated harsh climate. As the latitude of a location approaches the poles, the threshold elevation for alpine tundra gets ...
, a type of natural region or biome
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Alpine orogeny, in geology
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Alpine Fault, a geological fault running nearly the entire length of New Zealand's South Island
Sport
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Alpine climbing {{unreferenced, date=March 2019
Alpine climbing (german: Alpinklettern) is a branch of climbing in which the primary aim is very often to reach the summit of a mountain. In order to do this high rock faces or pinnacles requiring several lengths ...
, a branch of climbing in which the primary aim is very often to reach the summit of a mountain
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Alpine F1 Team
Alpine F1 Team, competing as BWT Alpine F1 Team, is a Formula One constructor which made its debut at the start of the 2021 Formula One World Championship. Formerly named Renault F1 Team and owned by the French automotive company Groupe Renault ...
, a Formula One team and constructor
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Alpine Rally, a rally competition
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Alpine style
Alpine style is mountaineering in a self-sufficient manner, thereby carrying all of one's food, shelter and equipment as one climbs, as opposed to expedition style (or siege style) mountaineering which involves setting up a fixed line of stocked ...
, mountaineering in a self-sufficient manner
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Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether ...
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Alpine slide
A summer toboggan is an amusement or recreational ride which uses a bobsled-like sled or cart to run down a track usually built on the side of a hill. There are two main types: an Alpine coaster or mountain coaster is a type of roller coaster ...
, a long chute on the side of a hill, usually built by ski resorts
Transportation
Automobiles
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Automobiles Alpine
The Société des Automobiles Alpine SAS, commonly known as Alpine (), is a French manufacturer of racing and sports cars established in 1955. The Alpine car marque was created in 1954.
Jean Rédélé, the founder of Alpine, was originally a ...
, a French manufacturer of cars
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Alpine Electronics
is a Japanese consumer electronics subsidiary of the Japanese electronics component manufacturer Alps Electric, specializing in car audio and navigation systems.
Established in 1967 as Alps-Motorola — a joint venture between Alps Electr ...
, a Japanese manufacturer of car audio and navigation systems
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Sunbeam Alpine, a sports car
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Chrysler Alpine, the compact car Simca 1307 in the UK
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Alpine F1 Team
Alpine F1 Team, competing as BWT Alpine F1 Team, is a Formula One constructor which made its debut at the start of the 2021 Formula One World Championship. Formerly named Renault F1 Team and owned by the French automotive company Groupe Renault ...
, Formula One team from 2021 onwards
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Alpine Academy, young driver programme run by the Formula One team
Aviation
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Alpine Air Express, an American airline
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Auster Alpine, a 1950s British airplane
Art, entertainment and media
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Alpine (band)
Alpine were an Australian indie pop band from Melbourne, Victoria, formed in 2009.
History
Alpine released their debut EP, ''Zurich'', in November 2010.
Preceded by the "Hands" single in late 2011, their debut album, ''A Is for Alpine'', wa ...
, an indie rock band from Melbourne, Australia
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Alpine (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
Other uses
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Alpine race, a historical ethnicity concept
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Alpine Elementary School (disambiguation)
* Alpine, a subdialect of
Vivaro-Alpine
Vivaro-Alpine ( oc, vivaroalpenc, vivaroaupenc) is a variety of Occitan spoken in southeastern France (namely, around the Dauphiné area) and northwestern Italy (the Occitan Valleys of Piedmont and Liguria). There is also a small Vivaro-Alpine ...
within the Occitan language
* Alpine, a number of brands of beer produced by the
Moosehead Brewery
Moosehead Breweries Limited is Canada's oldest independent brewery, located in Saint John, New Brunswick. The brewery was founded in 1867 and is still privately owned and operated by the Oland family. The company is now in the sixth generation ...
* Alpine, a menthol cigarette brand once made by
Philip Morris USA
Philip Morris USA is the American tobacco division of the American tobacco corporation Altria Group.
History Creation
The company's namesake Philip Morris was born in Whitechapel, United Kingdom in 1835, the son of a recent immigrant from G ...
See also
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Geology of the Alps
The Alps form part of a Cenozoic orogenic belt of mountain chains, called the Alpide belt, that stretches through southern Europe and Asia from the Atlantic all the way to the Himalayas. This belt of mountain chains was formed during the Alp ...
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Alpine butterfly (disambiguation) Alpine butterfly may refer to:
Biology
* ''Erebia'', a genus of butterflies common in the Rocky Mountains of North America
* ''Parnassius'', a genus of butterflies in Eurasia
Knots
* Alpine butterfly knot, used to form a fixed loop in the midd ...
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Alpine Journal
The ''Alpine Journal'' (''AJ'') is an annual publication by the Alpine Club of London. It is the oldest mountaineering journal in the world.
History
The magazine was first published on 2 March 1863 by the publishing house of Longman in London ...
'', a publication by the Alpine Club of London
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Alpin (disambiguation)
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Alpen (disambiguation)
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Swiss chalet style
Swiss chalet style (german: Schweizerstil, no, Sveitserstil) is an architectural style of Late Historicism, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe. The style refers to traditi ...
, an architectural style originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine regions of Central Europe
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