Salzkammergut and Upper Austria Alps
# 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, which are 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 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 = 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:

| Name | metres | feet |
| - | - | - |
| Hoher Dachstein | 2,995 | 8,924 |
| Großer Priel | 2,515 | 8,251 |
| Grimming | 2,351 | 7,711 |
| Gamsfeld | 2,027 | 6,649 |
| Hoher Sarstein | 1,975 | 6,440 |
| Hoher Nock | 1,963 | 6,438 |
