Salzkammergut and Upper Austria 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 located in Austria.

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.

SOIUSA classification

According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way:

• main part = Eastern Alps
• major sector = Northern Limestone Alps
• section = Salzkammergut and Upper Austria Alps
• code = II/B-25

Subdivision

The range is divided into four Alpine subsections:

• Dachstein mountains (De:Dachsteingebirge) – SOIUSA code:II/B-25.I;
• Salzkammergut mountains (De:Salzkammergut-Berge) – SOIUSA code:II/B-25.II;
• Totes mountains (De:Totes Gebirge) – SOIUSA code:II/B-25.III;
• Upper Austrian Prealps (De:Oberösterreichische Voralpen) – SOIUSA code:II/B-25.IV.

Notable summits

Some notable summits of the range are:

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