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Maritime Alps

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Mar·i·time Alps  (mr-tm)
A range of the southwest Alps on the French-Italian border near the Mediterranean Sea. The highest elevation is 3,299.2 m (10,817 ft).

Maritime Alps
pl n
(Placename) a range of the W Alps in SE France and NW Italy. Highest peak: Argentera, 3297 m (10 817 ft.)


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Gnarled olive trees covered the hills with their dusky foliage, fruit hung golden in the orchard, and great scarlet anemones fringed the roadside, while beyond green slopes and craggy heights, the Maritime Alps rose sharp and white against the blue Italian sky.
During their retreat in the region of the Maritime Alps, in a small house built of dry stones and embowered with roses, they appear all through to be less like released lovers than as companions who had found out each other's fitness in a specially intense way.
 
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