Key facts
- Location
- Salzkammergut
- Primary inflows
- Fuschler Ache , Zeller Ache
- Primary outflows
- Seeache
- Basin countries
- Austria
- Surface area
- 14.2 km (5.5 sq mi)
- Max depth
- 68 m (223 ft)
- Surface elevation
- 481 m (1,578 ft)
- Settlements
- Mondsee
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Named after
- Moon
- Country
- Austria
- Located in
- Innerschwand am Mondsee
- Area
- 13.78
- Elevation
- 481
- Image
- Aerial image of the Mondsee (view from the southeast).jpg
- Width
- 1.5
- Length
- 11
- Perimeter
- 25.7
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- outflows
- Seeache
- Commons category
- Mondsee
- Commons gallery
- Mondsee
- vertical depth
- 68
- mountain range
- Salzkammergut Mountains
- volume as quantity
- 510
- basin country
- Austria
- watershed area
- 247.2
- P8168
- Ion Monea
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Encyclopedic overview
Mondsee (Moon Lake) is a lake in the Upper Austrian part of the Salzkammergut and near the larger Attersee. Its southwestern shore marks the border between the states of Upper Austria and Salzburg and also between the Northern Limestone Alps in the south and the Sandstone zone of the northern Alps. The Drachenwand (Dragonwall) is a large cliff face over the southern shore of the lake. Mondsee is one of Austria's last privately owned lakes. In August 2008, owner Nicolette Wächter announced it was up for sale.
In 1864, remains of Neolithic pile dwellings were discovered in the lake.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mondsee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.