Carnic Alps

The Carnic Alps are a range of the Southern Limestone Alps in Austria and northeastern Italy. They are within Austrian East Tyrol and Carinthia, and Italian Friuli (Province of Udine) and marginally in Veneto of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.EtymologyThey are named after the Roman province of Carnia, which probably has a Celtic origin.The mountains gave their name to the stage on the geologic time scale known as Carnian, an age in the Triassic Period.GeographyThey extend from east to west for about 100km between the Gail River, a tributary of the Drava and the Tagliamento, forming the border between Austria and Italy.Alpine Club classificationIn the Carnic Alps is the southernmost glacier in Austria, the Eiskar, nestling in the Kellerwand massif.