!!!Millstätter See

Millstatt, Lake, Carinthia, alt. 588 m, area 
13.3 km%%sup 2/%, 12 km long and 1,9 km wide, 
140 m deep; second largest bathing lake in Carinthia, good water 
quality. Millstatt is situated in a basin formed by a glacier from the 
Ice Age, with Millstaetter Alpe mountain (2,091 m) towering above 
it in the north. Resorts on the north shore of Millstatt, which 
attracts much tourism, are Seeboden (618 m), Millstatt 
(611 m), and Dellach; no major settlements on the south shore. In 
the east, the Riegerbach stream flows into the lake, it is drained by 
the Seebach stream, which flows into the Lieser river.

!Literature
Office of the Carinthian provincial government (ed.), 
Kaerntner Seenbericht 1994, 1994.


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