The Dösener See (also Dösnersee ) is an alpine lake of Carinthia , Austria . It is part of the High Tauern National Park and located in the municipality of Mallnitz .
6-637: The lake is situated at 2270 metres above the Adriatic (7,450 ft) in the Ankogel Group of the High Tauern range, part of the Central Eastern Alps . It marks the head of the narrow Dösen Valley, stretching about 7 km (4.3 mi) up from Mallnitz in the west. With a surface area of 0.13 km (0.050 sq mi), it is the largest cirque lake of the national park area. Even in summer,
12-626: Is the vertical datum used in Albania , Austria , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , Montenegro , North Macedonia , Serbia , and Slovenia to measure elevation , referring to the average water level of the Adriatic Sea at the Sartorio mole in the Port of Trieste . The gauging station in the Port of Trieste was established in 1875 by the local observatory run by the military geographical institute of
18-661: The Austro-Hungarian Army . The average water surface elevation at Molo Sartorio became the datum valid for the whole Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Whilst the former Yugoslavian states still use it, the Eastern Bloc successor states of Austria-Hungary like Hungary and Czechoslovakia after World War II switched to the Kronstadt Gauge of the Baltic Sea , which is 0.6747 m (2.214 ft) higher. Whilst for Austria
24-622: The Hochalmspitze and the Reisseck massif. A large rock glacier ( Blockgletscher ) is located east of Dösener See, with a permafrost depth of up to 40 metres (130 ft). This Carinthia location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Metres above the Adriatic Metres above the Adriatic ( Italian : Metri sopra l'Adriatico , German : Meter über Adria , Serbo-Croatian : Metara iznad Jadrana )
30-407: The 1875 gauge is used as the datum, the states of former Yugoslavia use the 1900 gauge ( Nadmorska visina, m/nv ). In Albania (normal-orthometric height) they also refer to heights as 'metres above the Adriatic', but use a specific tide gauge in the port of Durrës . The individual countries using this datum abbreviate it in different ways depending on their local language, as follows: 'Metres above
36-452: The surface temperature never exceeds 7 °C (45 °F); the lake is covered by ice up to three quarters of a year. The water transparency comes to about 12 m (39 ft). In Dösener See, Arctic char are found as well as plankton species like rotifer and green algae . The Arthur-von-Schmid-Haus , an Alpine club hut erected in 1910–11, stands on the western shore. From here, mountain trails lead to neighbouring summits such as
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