!!!Mondsee

Mondsee, Lake, Upper Austria, alt. 481 m, area 
14.2 km%%sup 2/%, 7 km long and 2.7 km wide, 68 m 
deep, east of Salzburg, one of the warmest bathing lakes (usually 
20° C) of the Salzkammergut region; good water quality. Its 
south-eastern shore forms the border between Upper Austria and 
Salzburg as well as between the Limestone Alps in the south and the 
sandstone zone. Several streams enter the lake from different 
directions, such as the Fuschler Ache from  Fuschlsee, Lake, situated 
in the west, the Zeller Ache from  Irrsee, Lake in the northwest, and 
the Wangauer Ache from the east, Lake Mondsee is drained by the 
Seeache, which flows into  Attersee, Lake in the east. South of 
Mondsee are the Schafberg (1,782 m) and Drachenwand 
(1,176 m) mountains, and Mondseeberg (1,029 m) and 
Kulmspitze (1,095 m) mountains in the north. Relics of 
lake-dwellings from the Neolithic age were discovered in 1864 ( 
Mondsee Culture). The West-Autobahn, coming from the northeast, passes 
along the northern shore of Lake Mondsee; the only major settlement on 
the lake is the market town of Mondsee (493 m) in the northwest. 
At Scharfling: Federal Office for Water Management (water and fishery 
biology, limnology).


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