Its southwestern shore marks the border between the states of Upper Austria and Salzburg and also between the Northern Limestone Alps in the south and the Sandstone zone of the northern Alps.

The Drachenwand (Dragonwall) is a large cliff face over the southern shore of the lake.

Fish living in the lake: Ian Fleming mentions the Mondsee in one of his James Bond novels, Thunderball.

In chapter six,[4] Blofeld reports to the members of SPECTRE that their German unit has successfully retrieved (in secret) Himmler's hoard of jewels from Lake Mondsee.

Arno Geiger's 2018 novel Beneath Drachenwand Mountain is set mainly in Mondsee.