Carnic and Gailtal Alps

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Carnic and Gailtal Alps
Italian: Alpi Carniche e della Gail
German: Karnische und Gailtaler Alpen
HoheWarte KellerspitzeWest Karnische.jpg
Hohe Warte/ Monte Coglians, the highest summit of the range, on the right, and Kellerspitzen on the left, viewed from the northwest.
Highest point
Peak Coglians
Elevation 2,780 m (9,120 ft)
Coordinates 46°36′25″N12°52′56″E / 46.60694°N 12.88222°E / 46.60694; 12.88222
Geography
SOIUSA-Alpi Orientali-sezione33.png
Carnic and Gailtal Alps (33) within the Eastern Alps
CountriesAustria and Italy
StatesTyrol, Carinthia and Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Parent range Southern Limestone Alps
Borders on Venetian Prealps, Dolomites, Western Tauern Alps, Carinthian-Styrian Alps, Carinthian-Slovenian Alps, Julian Alps and Prealps and Venetian Plain
Geology
Orogeny Alpine orogeny

The Carnic and Gailtal Alps (Italian : Alpi Carniche e della Gail, German : Karnische und Gailtaler Alpen) is a geographic grouping of mountain ranges belonging to the Southern Limestone Alps. They are located in Austria and Italy.

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Geography

The range is bound by the Drau River in the north, separating it from the Western Tauern section of the Central Eastern Alps. The northern, entirely Austrian range is called the Gailtal Alps or Drauzug, bordered by the Gail River in the south. The Gail Valley is on the Periadriatic Seam, so that from a tectonic perspective the Gailtal Alps belong to the Central Eastern Alps. The Gailtal Alps are divided by the very deep Gailbergsattel (981 m) into a higher western section called the Lienzer Dolomites and a lower eastern section, to which the name Gailtal Alps is sometimes restricted. Passes in the eastern section include the Kreuzbergsattel and Windische Höhe.

The main ridge of the Carnic Alps forms the Austrian-Italian border and stretches from prominent Mt. Helm near Sexten at the tripoint of East Tyrol, South Tyrol and Veneto to the Canal Valley at Tarvisio in the east. It includes several peaks reaching nearly 2,800 m (9,200 ft) as well as the Plöcken and Naßfeld passes.

In the south, the Carnic Prealps stretch between the Piave and Tagliamento rivers down to the Padan Plain.

Administratively, the range is divided between the Italian Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, and the Austrian states Tyrol and Carinthia.

SOIUSA classification

According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps), the Carnic and Gailtal Alps are an Alpine section, classified in the following way: [1]

Subdivision

The Carnic and Gailtal Alps are divided into three subsections:

Notable summits

Mount Lumkofel (2,287 m), in the Gailtal Alps Lumkofel.jpg
Mount Lumkofel (2,287 m), in the Gailtal Alps
WWI. Austro-Hungarian machine gun team at Mount Gamskofel, c.1916 BASA-1221K-1-58-10.jpg
WWI. Austro-Hungarian machine gun team at Mount Gamskofel, c.1916

Some notable summits of the range are:

Namemetressubsection
Coglians / Hohe Warte 2,782Carnic Alps
Kellerspitzen / Creta delle Chianevate2,774Carnic Alps
Große Sandspitze2,770Lienzer Dolomites
Spitzkofel2,717Lienzer Dolomites
Cima dei Preti 2,703Carnic Prealps
Monte Peralba2,694Carnic Alps
Monte Cavallino / Große Kinigat 2,689Carnic Alps
Hochstadel2,681Lienzer Dolomites
Monte Duranno2,668Carnic Prealps
Rosskopf 2,603Carnic Alps
Zwölferspitz2,592Carnic Alps
Eggenkofel2,591Lienzer Dolomites
Monte Terza Grande 2,586Carnic Alps
Monte Cridola 2,581Carnic Prealps
Hochspitz2,581Carnic Alps
Torrione dei Longerin2,571Carnic Alps
Wolayer Seekopf 2,551Carnic Alps
Monte Brentoni2,548Carnic Alps
Cima Monfalcon di Montanaia2,548Carnic Prealps
Gamskofel2,526Carnic Alps
Steinwand2,520Carnic Alps
Monte Chiadenis 2,459Carnic Prealps
Gamswiesenspitze2,486Lienzer Dolomites
Helm 2,434Carnic Alps
Reißkofel2,371Gailtal Alps
Lumkofel2,287Gailtal Alps
Trogkofel / Creta di Aip2,195Carnic Alps
Jauken2,276Gailtal Alps
Gartnerkofel2,195Carnic Alps
Dobratsch2,166Gailtal Alps (Villach Alps)

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References

  1. Marazzi, Sergio (2005). Atlante Orografico delle Alpi. SOIUSA (in Italian). Priuli & Verlucca. ISBN   978-88-8068-273-8.