Pillersee is a lake in the
Northern Limestone Alps
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in
Tyrol
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,
Austria
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.
The Pillersee is in the Pillerseevalley near the village of
Sankt Ulrich am Pillersee at 835 m above sea level. It occupies an area of . Inflows are several streams that originate in the adjacent Lofer Steinberg mountains and the
Kitzbühel Alps. The outlet of the lake is made by the Haselbach and Grieselbach, the depth of the lake is at its lowest point . It is surrounded with mountains and can be swam in.
The origin to the Pillersee is a
landslide
Landslides, also known as landslips, rockslips or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows. Landslides ...
about 15,000 years ago, which interrupted the outflow of Öfenschlucht canyon and so dammed the Pillersee.
References
Lakes of Tyrol (federal state)
Kitzbühel District
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