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This article is about Attersee, the lake. Attersee is also the name of a town located on its shore. See Attersee.

The Attersee (a.k.a. Kammersee) is the largest lake of the Salzkammergut area. It extends for about 20 km from north to south and 4 km from east to west. Its water comes from the Seeache , which flows out of another lake, the Mondsee. The Höllengebirge (literally meaning hell mountains), with a height of up to 1800 m, is located southest of the lake. The Schafberg , another mountain, is immediately to the southwest of the Attersee.

At Litzlberg , there is a small island château, which Gustav Klimt frequently visited during the summer.

The following types of fish live in the lake:

• Esox
• lake trout
• brown trout
• rainbow trout
• lake char (salvelinus alpinus)
• gwyniad
• European eel
• carpA carp is any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae. The common carp Cyprinus carpio is the most common and best-known species of carp. Introduction of carp to North America Carp, native to Eurasia, were introduced into North America to grea
• burbotBurbot : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Gadiformes : Lotidae Lota lota Binomial name ''Lota lota Linne, 1758 The Burbot Lota lota is a fresh-water fish (Pisces, Teleostei) related to the cods. It is also known as the lawyer and eel-pout and closel
• cichlidCichlids Apistogramma Dwarf Cichlids Astronotus ( Oscars) Boulengerochromis Cichlasoma American Ciclids Crenicichla Pterophyllum Freshwater Angelfish Symphysodon Discus Teleogramma Tilapia Cichlids are a family of perciform fishes. Types and characteristi
• whitefishWhitefish is any of several different species of fish in the coregonus family. Whitefish Coregonus clupeiformis This includes the lake whitefish coregonus clupeaformis , round whitefish Coregonus cylindraceum also known as frostfish, cisco or lake herring

1 History

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