Signal de Botrange

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Signal de Botrange

Signal de Botrange (Signaal van Botrange) is the highest point in Belgium, located in the High Fens (Hautes Fagnes, Hoge Venen), at 694 metres (2,277 ft). In 1923, the six-metre-high Baltia tower was built on the summit to allow visitors to reach an altitude of 700 m. A stone tower built in 1934 reaches 718 m. For several decades a meteorological station was installed at signal Botrange. Since 1999, it was replaced by an automatic station of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium.
The average and extreme temperatures are usually lower than at any other place in Belgium: the minimum temperature recorded was -25.6 °C, and the maximum in summer was 30 °C.