Northern Styrian Alps

The Northern Styrian Alps is the proposed name for a subdivision of mountain ranges in an as-yet-unadopted classification of the Alps located in Austria.

Geography

Administratively the range belongs to the Austrian state of Styria and, marginally, to Upper Austria and Lower Austria.
The whole range is drained by the Danube river.

SOIUSA classification

According to SOIUSA the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way:

main part = Eastern Alps
major sector = Northern Limestone Alps
section = Northern Styrian Alps
code = II/B-26

Subdivision

The range is divided in two Alpine subsections:

Ennstal Alps - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I;
North-eastern Styrian Alps - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II;

These subsections are further subdivided in supergroups as it follows:

Ennstal Alps:
* supergroup Haller Mauern - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I-A,
* supergroup Gesäuse - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I-B,
* supergroup Eisenerzer Alpen - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I-C.
North-eastern Styrian Alps:
* supergroup Hochschwabgruppe - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II-A,
* supergroup Mürzsteger Alpen - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II-B,
* supergroup Rax-Schneeberg-Gruppe - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II-C.

Notable summits

Some notable summits of the range are:

Name	metres	feet
Hochtor	2,369	7,770
Hochschwab	2,278	7,472
Klosterwappen	2,076	6,809
Hohe Veitsch	1,981	6,498
Messnerin	1,835	6,019