Gösselsdorfer See () is a lake of
Carinthia
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,
Austria
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.
The largely silted up lake is located between the municipalities of
Eberndorf
Eberndorf (, archaically ''Dobrla ves'') is a market town of the Völkermarkt District in Carinthia (state), Carinthia, Austria.
Geography
It is the main settlement in the Jaun (''Podjuna'') Valley of the Drava River, east of the Carinthian capit ...
and
Sittersdorf. It is characterised by extensive
reed
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* Reed pen, writing implement in use since ancient times
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* Re ...
banks and adjacent
wetland
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s. The waters are part of a larger
protected landscape
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area.
Lakes of Carinthia
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