The Mittlerer Sonnblick is a 3,000 metre

Metres above the Adriatic

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 high sub-peak of the 3,030 metre high Großer Sonnblick

Großer Sonnblick

The Großer Sonnblick or Malteiner Sonnblick, a mountain with a height of , lies in the Ankogel Group of the Hohen Tauern in Austria and is the easternmost peak of the Alps that exceeds a height of 3,000 metres. The summit is located about 18 km as the crow flies northwest of Gmünd in Kärnten...

, with which it is linked by a knife-edge ridge. It is a border peak between the two Austria

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n federal states

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 Carinthia

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 and Salzburg

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-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

 in the Ankogel Group

Ankogel Group

The Ankogel Group is a sub-group of the Central Eastern Alps. Together with the Goldberg Group, the Glockner Group, the Schober Group, the Kreuzeck Group, the Granatspitze Group, the Venediger Group, the Villgraten Mountains and the Rieserferner Group the Ankogel Group forms the mountain range of...

, a sub-group of the High Tauern.

The mountain has a prominence of 100 m and an isolation of 660 m,

The peak has achieved a certain renown, no doubt because it is the easternmost three-thousander

Three-thousander

Three-thousanders are mountains with a height of between 3,000, but less than 4,000 metres above sea level. Similar terms are commonly used for mountains of other height brackets e. g...

 in the Alps

Alps

The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....

. It is certainly not wrong to say that the Großer Sonnblick is the easternmost mountain in the Alps that exceeds the 3,000-metre mark, but it is not the eastermost point in the Alps that reaches that height.