Carnic and Gailtal Alps


The Carnic and Gailtal Alps is a geographic grouping of mountain ranges belonging to the Southern Limestone Alps. They are located in Austria and Italy.

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 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 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 the Carnic and Gailtal Alps are an Alpine section, classified in the following way:
The Carnic and Gailtal Alps are divided into three subsections:
Some notable summits of the range are:
Namemetressubsection
Coglians / Hohe Warte2,782Carnic Alps
Kellerspitzen / Creta delle Chianevate2,774Carnic Alps
Große Sandspitze2,770Lienzer Dolomites
Spitzkofel2,717Lienzer Dolomites
Cima dei Preti2,703Carnic Prealps
Monte Peralba2,694Carnic Alps
Monte Cavallino / Große Kinigat2,689Carnic Alps
Hochstadel2,681Lienzer Dolomites
Monte Duranno2,668Carnic Prealps
Rosskopf2,603Carnic Alps
Zwölferspitz2,592Carnic Alps
Eggenkofel2,591Lienzer Dolomites
Monte Terza Grande2,586Carnic Alps
Monte Cridola2,581Carnic Prealps
Hochspitz2,581Carnic Alps
Torrione dei Longerin2,571Carnic Alps
Wolayer Seekopf2,551Carnic Alps
Monte Brentoni2,548Carnic Alps
Cima Monfalcon di Montanaia2,548Carnic Prealps
Gamskofel2,526Carnic Alps
Steinwand2,520Carnic Alps
Monte Chiadenis2,459Carnic Prealps
Gamswiesenspitze2,486Lienzer Dolomites
Helm2,434Carnic Alps
Reißkofel2,371Gailtal Alps
Lumkofel2,287Gailtal Alps
Trogkofel / Creta di Aip2,195Carnic Alps
Jauken2,276Gailtal Alps
Gartnerkofel2,195Carnic Alps
Dobratsch2,166Gailtal Alps