Dachstein
The Dachstein is a 20 x 30 km limestone massif in the Northern Calcareous Alps, in Austria. The summit is at 3,000 m, with dozens of other peaks above 2,500 m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 2,995 metres
- Description: mountain range
- Also known as: “Dachstein Gebirge”, “Dachstein Gruppe”, and “Dachstein Mountains”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hoher Dachstein and Gjaidstein.
Hoher Dachstein
Peak
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Hoher Dachstein is a strongly karstic mountain in central Austria and the second-highest mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps. It is situated at the border of Upper Austria and Styria, and is the highest point in each of those states.
Gjaidstein
Peak
Photo: SchiDD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hoher Gjaidstein is a 2,794 metres high mountain peak in the Dachstein Mountains in Upper Austria east and above the Hallstätter Glacier. It may be reached from the summit station of the Dachstein South Face Cable Car or from the Simony Hut each of which is an easy grade I climb.
Dachstein
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Upper Austria, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Venetian—“Dachstein” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Dachstein լեռներ”
- Bavarian: “Dochstaagebiage”
- Cebuano: “Dachstein”
- Chinese: “达赫施泰因山脉”
- Chinese: “達赫施泰因山脈”
- Czech: “Dachstein”
- Danish: “Dachsteingebirge”
- Dutch: “Dachsteinmassief”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال داتشستين”
- Esperanto: “Dachstein (montargrupo)”
- Esperanto: “Dachstein”
- Finnish: “Dachstein”
- French: “Massif du Dachstein”
- German: “Dachstein”
- German: “Dachsteingebirge”
- German: “Dachsteingruppe”
- Hungarian: “Dachstein hegység”
- Hungarian: “Dachstein”
- Italian: “Monti del Dachstein”
- Japanese: “ダッハシュタイン山塊”
- Korean: “다흐슈타인산맥”
- Ladin: “Crëps de Dachstein”
- Lithuanian: “Dachšteinas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dachsteingebirge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dachsteingebirge”
- Norwegian: “Dachstein”
- Persian: “کوههای داخشتاین”
- Polish: “Dachstein”
- Portuguese: “Montes de Dachstein”
- Romanian: “Munții Dachstein”
- Russian: “Дахштайн”
- Slovak: “Dachstein”
- Slovenian: “Dacshsteinsko pogorje”
- Swedish: “Dachstein (bergskedja)”
- Swedish: “Dachstein”
- Thai: “ทิวเขาดัคชไตน์”
- Venetian: “Monti del Dachstein”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Dachstein”. Photo: Saperaud, CC BY-SA 3.0.