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Northern Lower Austria Alps

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The Northern Lower Austria Alps or Lower Austria Alps (Niederösterreichische Nordalpen in German) is the proposed name for a subdivision of mountains in a new, and as yet unadopted, classification of the Alps. They are the northernmost section of the Alps.

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Geography

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

SOIUSA classification

According to the proposal by SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps), the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way:[2]

Subdivision

Lower Austria Alps are divided into three Alpine subsections:[2]

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Summits

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The Ötscher in winter
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The Wienerwald, in the north-eastern part of the range

The chief summits of the range are:

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