Styrian Prealps
Appearance
Styrian Prealps | |
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![]() The Stuhleck (1,782 m) in winter | |
Highest point | |
Peak | Ameringkogel |
Elevation | 2,184 m (7,165 ft) |
Coordinates | 47°04′16″N 14°48′30″E / 47.07111°N 14.80833°E |
Geography | |
Countries | Austria, Slovenia and Hungary |
Settlement | Graz, Maribor |
Parent range | Alps |
Borders on | Northern Styrian Alps, Eastern Tauern Alps, Carinthian-Styrian Alps and Slovenian Prealps |
Geology | |
Orogeny | Alpine orogeny |
The Styrian Prealps (in German Steirisches Randgebirge, in Slovenian Štajersko Robno hribovje, in Hungarian Stájer Elő-Alpok) is the proposed name for a subdivision of mountains in a new, and as yet unadopted, classification of the Alps, located in Austria and, marginally, in Slovenia and Hungary.
Geography
[edit]The whole range is drained by the tributaries of the Danube river.
SOIUSA classification
[edit]According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the Styrian Prealps are an Alpine section, classified in the following way:[1]
- main part = Eastern Alps
- major sector = Central Eastern Alps
- section = Styrian Prealps
- code = II/A-20
Subdivision
[edit]The Styrian Prealps are divided into four subsections:
- North-western Styrian Prealps (Stubalpe; Gleinalpe; Western Graz Highlands) - SOIUSA code:II/A-20.I;
- South-western Styrian Prealps (Koralpe; Reinischkögel; Kobansko) - SOIUSA code:II/A-20.II
- Central Styrian Prealps (Fischbach Alps; Eastern Graz Highlands) - SOIUSA code:II/A-20.III;
- Eastern Styrian Prealps (Wechsel-Joglland; Bucklige Welt; Bernstein-Güns; Rosalien-Ödenburg) - SOIUSA code:II/A-20.IV.
Notable summits
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Some notable summits of the Styrian Prealps are:
Name | metres | feet |
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Ameringkogel | 2,184 | 7,164 |
Großer Speikkogel | 2,140 | 7,019 |
Stuhleck | 1,782 | 5,845 |
Wechsel | 1,743 | 5,717 |
Hochlantsch | 1,720 | 5,642 |
Košenjak | 1,522 | 4,992 |
References
[edit]- ^ Marazzi, Sergio (2005). Atlante Orografico delle Alpi. SOIUSA (in Italian). Priuli & Verlucca. ISBN 978-88-8068-273-8.