Country Austria Elevation 2,995 m Type of rock Sedimentary rock | Orogeny Alpine orogeny Peak Hoher Dachstein Parent range Alps | |
States of Austria Upper Austria, Salzburg and Styria Borders on Northern Salzburg Alps, Northern Styrian Alps, Northern Lower Austria Alps and Eastern Tauern Alps |
The Salzkammergut and Upper Austria Alps (Oberösterreichisch-Salzkammerguter Alpen in German) is the proposed name for a subdivision of mountains in a new classification of the Alps, which are located in Austria.
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Etymology
Salzkammergut is the name of a historical territory and literally means Estate of the Salt Chamber; it derives from the Imperial Salt Chamber, the authority charged with running the precious salt mines in the Habsburg empire.
Geography
Administratively the range belongs to the Austrian state of Upper Austria, Salzburg and, marginally, to Styria. The whole range is drained by the Danube river.
SOIUSA classification
According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way:
Subdivision
The range is divided into four Alpine subsections:
Notable summits
Some notable summits of the range are: