Vestfonna
Vestfonna is an ice cap located on the western part Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. The glacier covers an area of about 2,500 km2. It is the third largest ice cap in Svalbard and Norway by area, after Austfonna and Olav V Land.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 619 metres
- Description: glacier at Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, Norway
- Also known as: “Névé dôme Gimle”, “Väst-isen”, and “West-Ice”
Vestfonna
- Categories: ice sheet and landform
- Location: Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
80.01723° or 80° 1′ 2″ northLongitude
20.28655° or 20° 17′ 12″ eastElevation
619 metres (2,031 feet)Open location code
CGG2278P+VJOpenStreetMap ID
way 372353383OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Spanish—“Vestfonna” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Vestfonna”
- Azerbaijani: “Vestfonna buzlağı”
- Catalan: “Vestfonna”
- Chinese: “西冰帽”
- Dutch: “Vestfonna”
- French: “Vestfonna”
- German: “Westferner”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestfonna”
- Norwegian: “Vestfonna”
- Russian: “Вестфонна”
- Russian: “Западное ледяное поле”
- Spanish: “Vestfonna”
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