Ankogel Group

Ankogel Group
File:Seebachtal Talschluss - Lassacher Winkel.jpg Seebach Valley near Mallnitz with Hochalmspitze
Highest point
Peak	Hochalmspitze
Elevation
Geography
Location within the Eastern Alps
Country	Austria
States	Carinthia and Salzburg
Range coordinates
Parent range	Western Tauern Alps Hohe Tauern

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, 3,360 m (AA) (11,020 ft).

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. 3,252 m (10,669 ft).

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-thousanders in the Ankogel Group:

Hochalmspitze 3,360 m (AA) Großelendkopf 3,317 m (AA) Großer Ankogel 3,252 m (AA) Jochspitze 3,179 m (AA) Schwarzkopf 3,171 m (AA) Zsigmondyspitze 3,152 m (AA) Preimlspitz 3,133 m (AA) Steinerne Mandln 3,125 m (AA) Winkelspitz 3,112 m (AA) Oberlercherspitze 3,107 m (AA) Kordonspitze 3,102 m (AA) Kleiner Ankogel 3,096 m (AA)

Säuleck 3,086 m (AA) Großer Hafner 3,076 m (AA) Elendköpfe 3,070 m (AA) Großer Sonnblick 3,030 m (AA) Lanischeck 3,024 m (AA) Kleiner Hafner 3,018 m (AA) Schneewinkelspitze 3,016 m (AA) Tischlerkarkopf 3,004 m (AA) Tischlerspitze 3,002 m (AA) Grubenkarkopf 3,001 m (AA) Mittlerer Sonnblick 3,000 m (AA)

File:Panorama from Ankogel.jpg

Panorama view from Ankogel

Sources

• Liselotte Buchenauer, Peter Holl: Alpenvereinsführer Ankogel- und Goldberggruppe. Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, Munich, 1986. ISBN 3-7633-1247-1