Hafelekarspitze
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| Hafelekarspitze | |
|---|---|
 The North Chain seen from Innsbruck. Centre: the Hafelekar top station, right: (east) the Hafelekarspitze | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 2,334 m (AA) (7,657 ft) |
| Coordinates | 47°18′46″N 11°23′11″E / 47.312828°N 11.38632°E |
| Geography | |
| Parent range | North Chain, Karwendel |
| Geology | |
| Rock age | Triassic |
| Rock type | Wetterstein limestone[1] |
| Climbing | |
| Access | Nordketten Cable Car |
The Hafelekarspitze is a mountain in the so-called North Chain (Nordkette) north of Innsbruck in Austria.
Below and west of the summit is the top station of Hafelekar, the second section of the Nordkette Cable Car at a height of 2,269 m (AA), from where the Hafelekarspitze may be reached in a few minutes by foot on a metalled path.
Not far from there is the Hafelekar Survey Station, a cosmic radiation observatory of the University of Innsbruck, the only one of its kind in Austria. It was here in 1937 that physicists Marietta Blau and Hertha Wambacher using Nuclear emulsion plates, made the first ever observation of nuclear disintegration 'stars' (Zertrümmerungsterne) caused by cosmic rays striking nuclei in the emulsion.[2]
Summit cross on the Hafelekarspitze
The top station of the Nordketten Cable Car at the Hafelekar cirque
Research station and amateur radio hut (left)
