SALZKAMMERGUT  , a

district of Austria in the S.W. angle of the duchy of Upper Austria situated between Salzburg and Styria . It forms a separate imperial domain of about 250 sq. m. and is famous for its fine scenery, which has gained for it the title of the " Austrian Switzerland "; but it owes its name (literally " salt-exchequer property ") and its economic importance to its valuable salt mines . It belongs to the region of the Eastern Alps, and contains the Dachstein group with the Dachstein (983o ft.) and the Thorstein (9657 ft.) . In the Dachstein group are found the most easterly glaciers of the Alps, of which the largest is the Karls-Eisfeld, nearly 22 m. long and 1a m. broad; the Ischler Alps with the Gamsfeld (664o ft.), the Hollengebirge with the great Hollenkogel (61o6 ft.), and the Schafberg (5837 ft.), which is called the " Austrian Rigi." Then comes the Todtes Gebirge, with the Grosser Priel (8246 ft.) and the Traunstein (5446 ft.) on the E. shore of the Traun lake; the Pyhrgas group with the Grosser Pyhrgas (7360 ft.) and the Sengsen or Sensen group, with the Hoher Nock (6431 ft.) . The chief lakes are the Traun-see or Lake of Gmunden (1383 ft. above sea-level, 9 sq. m. in extent, 623 ft. deep); the Hallstatter-see or Lake of Hallstatt (1629 ft. above sea-level, 31 sq. m. in extent, 409 ft. deep ); the Atter-see or Kammer-see (1527 ft. above.sealevel, 18 sq. m. in extent, 56o ft. deep), the largest lake in Austria; the Mond-see (156o ft. above the sea, 9 sq. m. in extent, 222 ft. deep) and the Aber-see or Lake of St Wolfgang (1742 ft. above sea-level, 51 sq. m. in extent, 369 ft. deep) . Salzkammergut had in 1900 a population of over 18,000 . The capital of the district is Gmunden, and other places of importance are Ischl, Hallstatt and Ebensee (7656), which are important salt-mining centres . The salt extracted in Salzkammergut amounts to nearly 30% of the total Austrian production . Cattle-rearing and forestry form the other principal occupations of the inhabitants . See Kegele, Das Salzkammergut (Wien, 1897) .