The Mittlerer Sonnblick is a 3,000

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high sub-peak of the

Großer Sonnblick The Großer Sonnblick or Malteiner Sonnblick, a mountain with a height of ,
at www.thehighrisepages.de. Accessed on 10 ...

(3,030 m) to which it is linked by a knife-edge ridge. It is a border peak between the two

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n federal states of

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and

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. It lies within the Ankogel Group of mountains, a sub-group of the High Tauern. The mountain has a prominence of 100 metres and an isolation of 660 metres.''Tour 567 - Großer Hafner, Großer Sonnblick, Mittlerer Sonnblick, Petereck''
at www.thehighrisepages.de. Accessed on 10 Jul 2011. The peak has achieved certain renown, no doubt because it is the easternmost

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in the

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. 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 easternmost point in the Alps that reaches that height.

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{{Reflist Mountains of Carinthia (state) Mountains of Salzburg (state) Mountains of the Alps Alpine three-thousanders Ankogel Group