title: Northern Styrian Alps
text: # Northern Styrian Alps
  
  The Northern Styrian Alps (Steirische Nordalpen in German) is the proposed name for a subdivision of mountain ranges in an as-yet-unadopted classification of the Alps located in Austria.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Administratively the range belongs to the Austrian state of Styria and, marginally, to Upper Austria and Lower Austria. The whole range is drained by the Danube river.
  
  ### SOIUSA classification
  
  According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way:
  
  * main part = Eastern Alps
  * major sector = Northern Limestone Alps
  * section = Northern Styrian Alps
  * code = II/B-26
  
  ### Subdivision
  
  The range is divided in two Alpine subsections:
  
  * Ennstal Alps - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I;
  * North-eastern Styrian Alps - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II;
  
  These subsections are further subdivided in supergroups as it follows:
  
  * Ennstal Alps:
     * supergroup Haller Mauern - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I-A,
     * supergroup Gesäuse - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I-B,
     * supergroup Eisenerzer Alpen - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.I-C.
  * North-eastern Styrian Alps:
     * supergroup Hochschwabgruppe - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II-A,
     * supergroup Mürzsteger Alpen - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II-B,
     * supergroup Rax-Schneeberg-Gruppe - SOIUSA code:II/B-26.II-C.
  
  ## Notable summits
  
  Some notable summits of the range are:
  
  | Name | metres | feet |
  | - | - | - |
  | Hochtor | 2,369 | 7,770 |
  | Hochschwab | 2,278 | 7,472 |
  | Klosterwappen | 2,076 | 6,809 |
  | Hohe Veitsch | 1,981 | 6,498 |
  | Messnerin | 1,835 | 6,019 |
  