Sonderschutzgebiet Gamsgrube

Sonderschutzgebiet Gamsgrube is a locality in Heiligenblut, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia. Sonderschutzgebiet Gamsgrube is situated nearby to the locality Wasserfalleck, as well as near Wasserfallwinkel.

Photo: Raul de Chissota, Public domain.

Type: Locality
Description: cirque in the Glockner Group in Carinthia
Also known as: “Gamsgrube”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pasterze Glacier and Fuscherkarkopf.

Pasterze Glacier

Glacier

Photo: Otberg, Public domain.

The Pasterze, at approximately 8.4 kilometres in length, is the longest glacier in Austria and in the Eastern Alps. It lies within the Glockner Group of the High Tauern mountain range in Carinthia, directly beneath Austria's highest mountain, the Grossglockner.

Fuscherkarkopf

Peak

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Fuscherkarkopf, sometimes also written Fuscher-Kar-Kopf in German and formerly also called the Fuschereiskarkopf, is one of the twin peaks of a mountain in the Glockner Group in the centre of the main mountain chain in the High Tauern, a range in the Austrian Central Alps.

Freiwandspitz

Peak

Photo: Walter Mittelholzer, Public domain.

Freiwandspitz is a peak.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe and Zweiter Leiterkogel.

Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe

Locality

Photo: Papa1234, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe is part of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road. The end point of a cul-de-sac and lookout point is in Austria in the Glockner Group in Carinthia at an altitude of 2,369 m above sea level.