Ankogel Group
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The Ankogel Group (German:Ankogelgruppe) is a sub-group of the Central Eastern Alps. Together with the Goldberg Group, the Glockner Group, the Schober Group, the Kreuzeck Group, the Granatspitze Group, the Venediger Group, the Villgraten Mountains and the Rieserferner Group it forms the mountain range of the Hohe Tauern (High Tauern).
The Ankogel Group is located in the Austrian federal states of Salzburg and Carinthia. Its highest peak is the Hochalmspitze, 3,360m(AA) (11,020ft).
Geography
The Ankogel Group is the easternmost mountain group of the High Tauern and lies on the main chain of the Alps. The Lower Tauern begin further east. The range gets its name from the Ankogel mountain. 3,252m (10,669ft).
The Ankogel Group can be further divided into the sub-groups of the Ankogel Massif, the Hochalmspitze Group, the Hafner Group and the Reißeck Group south of the Möll Valley. It comprises the picturesque Maltatal ("valley of falling waters") with the Fallbach Waterfall and the Kölnbrein Dam.
Neighbouring ranges
The Ankogel Group borders on the following other mountain ranges in the Eastern Alps:
- Goldberg Group (in the West)
- Kreuzeck Group (in the southwest)
(both also part of the High Tauern)
- Salzburg Slate Alps, lying north of the Salzach River
- Radstädter Tauern, lying northeast of the Mur River
- Nock Mountains, lying beyond the Lieser Valley in the east.
- Gailtal Alps, south of the Drava,
part of the Southern Limestone Alps.
Peaks
All the named three-thousands in the Ankogel Group:
- Hochalmspitze 3,360mabove sea level (AA)
- Großelendkopf 3,317mabove sea level (AA)
- Großer Ankogel 3,252mabove sea level (AA)
- Jochspitze 3,179mabove sea level (AA)
- Schwarzkopf 3,171mabove sea level (AA)
- Zsigmondyspitze 3,152mabove sea level (AA)
- Preimlspitz 3,133mabove sea level (AA)
- Steinerne Mandln 3,125mabove sea level (AA)
- Winkelspitz 3,112mabove sea level (AA)
- Oberlercherspitze 3,107mabove sea level (AA)
- Kordonspitze 3,102mabove sea level (AA)
- Kleiner Ankogel 3,096mabove sea level (AA)
- Säuleck 3,086mabove sea level (AA)
- Großer Hafner 3,076mabove sea level (AA)
- Elendköpfe 3,070mabove sea level (AA)
- Großer Sonnblick 3,030mabove sea level (AA)
- Lanischeck 3,024mabove sea level (AA)
- Kleiner Hafner 3,018mabove sea level (AA)
- Schneewinkelspitze 3,016mabove sea level (AA)
- Tischlerkarkopf 3,004mabove sea level (AA)
- Tischlerspitze 3,002mabove sea level (AA)
- Grubenkarkopf 3,001mabove sea level (AA)
- Mittlerer Sonnblick 3,000mabove sea level (AA)
Sources
- Liselotte Buchenauer, Peter Holl: Alpenvereinsführer Ankogel- und Goldberggruppe. Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, Munich, 1986. ISBN3-7633-1247-1
External links
- Media related toAnkogel Groupat Wikimedia Commons