The Mittlerer Sonnblick is a 3,000

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high sub-peak of the Großer Sonnblick (3,030 m) to which it is linked by a knife-edge ridge. It is a border peak between the two

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Carinthia Carinthia ( ; ; ) is the southernmost and least densely populated States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The Lake Wolayer is a mountain lake on the Carinthian side of the Carnic Main ...

and

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. It lies within the

Ankogel Group The Ankogel Group () is a sub-group of the Central Eastern Alps. Together with the Goldberg Group, the Glockner Group, the Schober Group, the Kreuzeck Group, the Granatspitze Group, the Venediger Group, the Villgraten Mountains and the Rieserfern ...

of mountains, a sub-group of the

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. The mountain has a prominence of 100 metres and an isolation of 660 metres.''Tour 567 - Großer Hafner, Großer Sonnblick, Mittlerer Sonnblick, Petereck''
at www.thehighrisepages.de. Accessed on 10 Jul 2011. The peak has achieved certain renown, no doubt because it is the easternmost

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in the

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. It is certainly not wrong to say that the Großer Sonnblick is the easternmost ''mountain'' in the Alps that exceeds the 3,000-metre mark, but it is not the easternmost point in the Alps that reaches that height.

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