National parks of Austria
Austria has six national parks, all of them internationally accepted according to the IUCN standard. The first national park, Hohe Tauern, was established in 1981. They include each of Austria's most important natural landscape types — alluvial forest, Alpine massif, Pannonian steppe and rocky valleys.
Fuscherkarkopf massif, Hohe Tauern
Image: Großglockner from South
Image: Neusiedler See im Winter
Image: NP Donau Auen neu
The High Tauern are a mountain range on the main chain of the Central Eastern Alps, comprising the highest peaks east of the Brenner Pass. The crest forms the southern border of the Austrian states of Salzburg, Carinthia and East Tyrol, with a small part in the southwest belongs to the Italian province of South Tyrol. The range includes Austria's highest mountain, the Grossglockner at 3,798 metres (12,461 ft) above the Adriatic.
Panorama of the Venediger Group
The Großglockner from the south
The Dreiherrnspitze from the west in the year 1890
The Hochgall in winter from the west