Northern Styrian Alps
# Northern Styrian Alps

The Northern Styrian Alps (Steirische Nordalpen in German) is the proposed name for a subdivision of mountain ranges in an as-yet-unadopted classification of the Alps located in Austria.

## Geography

Administratively the range belongs to the Austrian state of Styria and, marginally, to Upper Austria and Lower Austria. 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:

* main part = Eastern Alps
* major sector = Northern Limestone Alps
* section = Northern Styrian Alps
* code = II/B-26

### Subdivision

The range is divided in two Alpine subsections:

* Ennstal Alps - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I;
* North-eastern Styrian Alps - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II;

These subsections are further subdivided in supergroups as it follows:

* Ennstal Alps:
   * supergroup Haller Mauern - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I-A,
   * supergroup Gesäuse - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I-B,
   * supergroup Eisenerzer Alpen - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I-C.
* North-eastern Styrian Alps:
   * supergroup Hochschwabgruppe - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II-A,
   * supergroup Mürzsteger Alpen - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II-B,
   * supergroup Rax-Schneeberg-Gruppe - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II-C.

## Notable summits

Some notable summits of the range are:

| Name | metres | feet |
| - | - | - |
| Hochtor | 2,369 | 7,770 |
| Hochschwab | 2,278 | 7,472 |
| Klosterwappen | 2,076 | 6,809 |
| Hohe Veitsch | 1,981 | 6,498 |
| Messnerin | 1,835 | 6,019 |
