The Ankogel Group is a sub-group of the Central Eastern Alps

Central Eastern Alps

The Central Eastern Alps comprise the main chain of the Eastern Alps with its highest peaks, located between the Northern Limestone Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps, from which they differ in geological composition....

. Together with the Goldberg Group, the Glockner Group

Glockner Group

The Glockner Group is a sub-group of the Austrian Central Alps in the Eastern Alps, and is located in the centre section of the High Tauern on the main chain of the Alps....

, the Schober Group

Schober group

The Schober Group is a sub-range of mountains in the Central Austrian Alps. Most of the range is located inside Hohe Tauern National Park. Its highest peak is Petzeck at ....

, the Kreuzeck Group

Kreuzeck Group

The Kreuzeck Group is a mountain range in Carinthia, Austria, which forms part of the Central Eastern Alps. It may be considered a part of the Hohe Tauern....

, the Granatspitze Group

Granatspitze Group

The Granatspitze Group is a sub-group of the Central Alps within the Eastern Alps. Together with the Ankogel Group, the Goldberg Group, the Glockner Group, the Schober Group, the Kreuzeck Group, the Venediger Group, the Villgraten Mountains and the Rieserferner Group, the Granatspitze Group forms...

, the Venediger Group

Venediger Group

The Venediger Group is a sub-group of the Austrian Central Alps in the Eastern Alps. Together with the Ankogel Group, the Goldberg Group, the Glockner Group, the Schober Group, the Kreuzeck Group, the Granatspitze Group, the Villgraten Mountains and the Rieserferner Group the Venediger Group forms...

, the Villgraten Mountains and the Rieserferner Group the Ankogel Group forms the mountain range of the High Tauern. The Ankogel Group is located in the Austrian federal states of Salzburg and Carinthia

Carinthia (state)

Carinthia is the southernmost Austrian state or Land. Situated within the Eastern Alps it is chiefly noted for its mountains and lakes.The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Austro-Bavarian group...

. Its highest peak is the Hochalmspitze,

The Ankogel Group is the easternmost part of the High Tauern. The Low Tauern begin further east. The Ankogel Group gets its name from the mountain of Ankogel which is .

The Ankogel Group is further divided into the sub-groups of the Ankogel Massif, the Hochalmspitze Group, the Hafner Group and the Reißeck Group.

Neighbouring ranges

The Ankogel Group borders on the following other mountain ranges in the Alps:

• Salzburg Slate Alps (in the north)
• Radstädter Tauern (in the northeast)
• Nockberge (in the southeast)
• Gailtal Alps (in the south)
• Kreuzeck Group
  Kreuzeck Group
  The Kreuzeck Group is a mountain range in Carinthia, Austria, which forms part of the Central Eastern Alps. It may be considered a part of the Hohe Tauern....
  
   (in the southwest)
• Goldberg Group (in the west)

Peaks

All the named three-thousander

Three-thousander

Three-thousanders are mountains with a height of between 3,000, but less than 4,000 metres above sea level. Similar terms are commonly used for mountains of other height brackets e. g...

s in the Ankogel Group:

Hochalmspitze  Großelendkopf Großer Ankogel  Jochspitze Schwarzkopf Zsigmondyspitze Preimlspitz Steinerne Mandln Winkelspitz Oberlercherspitze Kordonspitze Kleiner Ankogel

Säuleck  Großer Hafner  Elendköpfe Großer Sonnblick Großer Sonnblick The Großer Sonnblick or Malteiner Sonnblick, a mountain with a height of , lies in the Ankogel Group of the Hohen Tauern in Austria and is the easternmost peak of the Alps that exceeds a height of 3,000 metres. The summit is located about 18 km as the crow flies northwest of Gmünd in Kärnten...   Lanischeck Kleiner Hafner Schneewinkelspitze  Tischlerkarkopf Tischlerspitze Grubenkarkopf Mittlerer Sonnblick Mittlerer Sonnblick The Mittlerer Sonnblick is a 3,000 metre high sub-peak of the 3,030 metre high Großer Sonnblick, with which it is linked by a knife-edge ridge. It is a border peak between the two Austrian federal states Carinthia and Salzburg in the Ankogel Group, a sub-group of the High Tauern.The mountain has a...

Source

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