Lavanttal Alps

Lavanttal Alps
Lavanttal Alps
	Seetal Alps with Mt. Zirbitzkogel
Highest point
Peak	Zirbitzkogel
Elevation	2,396 m (7,861 ft)
Coordinates	47°3′0″N 14°34′0″E / 47.05000°N 14.56667°E
Geography
Countries	Austria and Slovenia
States	Styria and Carinthia
Range coordinates	47°4′N 14°57′E / 47.067°N 14.950°E
Parent range	Central Eastern Alps; Carinthian-Styrian Alps (Noric Alps)

The Lavanttal Alps (German: Lavanttaler Alpen, Slovene: Labotniške Alpe) are part of the Central Eastern Alps in Austria and Slovenia, between the river Mur in the north and the Drava in the south.

The mountains are named after the central valley of Lavanttal and the Lavant River which runs in their midst. Historically they were also viewed, along with the neighbouring Gurktal Alps range, as part of the larger "Noric Alps", but that grouping had no geological basis.^[1]

^ Noric Alps in Austria-Forum (in German) (at AEIOU); hence also the AVE No. 46b (and 46a for the Nock Mountains, the eastern Gurktal Alps) which goes back to the old group 46 of Moriggl's classification of 1924

[1] Noric Alps in Austria-Forum (in German) (at AEIOU); hence also the AVE No. 46b (and 46a for the Nock Mountains, the eastern Gurktal Alps) which goes back to the old group 46 of Moriggl's classification of 1924

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