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Almsee, English sometimes Lake Alm, is a lake in Upper Austria's part of the Salzkammergut in the Almtal valley, south of the village of Grünau im Almtal. The lake lies in the northern portion of the Totes Gebirge mountains and is about by wide.

Key facts

Body of water.name
Almsee
Body of water.image
Almsee Panorama 20201126.jpg
Body of water.alt
View at the Almsee from Ameisstein
Body of water.caption
View from Ameisstein
Body of water.location
Grünau im Almtal
Body of water.lake_type
Oligotrophic
Body of water.outflow
Alm
Body of water.basin_countries
Austria
Body of water.designation
Nature reserve
Body of water.residence_time
10 days
Body of water.pushpin_map
Austria
Body of water.pushpin_map_alt
Location of the lake in Austria.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
lake
Country
Austria
Area
0.85
Elevation
589
Image
Almsee Panorama 20201126.jpg
Width
0.7
Length
2.3
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Commons category
Almsee
outflows
Alm
vertical depth
5
mountain range
Alps
volume as quantity
2.1
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Almsee, English sometimes Lake Alm, is a lake in Upper Austria's part of the Salzkammergut in the Almtal valley, south of the village of Grünau im Almtal. The lake lies in the northern portion of the Totes Gebirge mountains and is about by wide.

The lake drains through the Alm River. Since 1965, the area around the Almsee is under nature conservation. Konrad Lorenz made important observations of the greylag goose at the lake.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Almsee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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