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Monte Leone is the highest mountain of the
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and is located on the border between Switzerland and
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. The mountain stands on the extreme west of the Lepontine Alps, a few kilometres east of
Simplon Pass The Simplon Pass (french: Col du Simplon; german: Simplonpass; it, Passo del Sempione, Lombard: ''Pass del Sempiün'') () is a high mountain pass between the Pennine Alps and the Lepontine Alps in Switzerland. It connects Brig in the canto ...
.


Etymology

''Leone'' in
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means ''lion'', and the mountain's name is said to come from the look of its south face's profile. A different origin of the name could be ''Munt d'l'Aiun'', which in the local dialect means ''Aiun's mountain''; Aione is a nearby village and mount Leone is situated close to
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traditionally owned by the villagers.


Geography

In the
SOIUSA Alps by SOIUSA. SOIUSA (an acronym for - English: ''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps-ISMSA'') is a proposal for a new classification system of the Alps from the geographic and toponomastic point of view. It was designe ...
(''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps'') the mountain belongs to an alpine subsection of
Lepontine Alps , topo_map= Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo , photo=MonteLeone0001.jpg , photo_caption=Monte Leone , country_type= Countries , country= , subdivision1_type= Cantons, Regions , subdivision1= , parent= Western Alps , borders ...
called ''"North-Western Lepontine Alps"'' ( It:''Alpi del Monte Leone e del San Gottardo''; De:''Monte Leone-Sankt Gotthard-Alpen'').


See also

*
List of mountains of Valais This is a list of mountains of the Swiss canton of Valais. Valais is a very mountainous canton and includes the highest mountains of Switzerland. The highest mountain ranges are the Pennine Alps, the Bernese Alps and the Mont Blanc massif. Topogr ...
*
List of mountains of Switzerland This article contains a sortable table of many of the major mountains and hills of Switzerland. The table only includes those summits that have a topographic prominence of at least above other points, and ranks them by height and prominence. T ...
*
List of most isolated mountains of Switzerland A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...


References


External links


Monte Leone on Summitpost
Mountains of the Alps Alpine three-thousanders Mountains of Switzerland Mountains of Piedmont Italy–Switzerland border International mountains of Europe Mountains of Valais Lepontine Alps {{VerbanoCusioOssola-mountain-stub