Austfonna
Austfonna is an ice cap located on Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Covering an area of 7,800 km. Austfonna has a thickness of up to 560 metres, and is 200 km in circumference.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Snowfield
- Description: glacier at Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, Norway
- Also known as: “East Ice”, “Groote Ys Berg”, and “Öst-Isen”
Austfonna
- Categories: ice sheet and landform
- Location: Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Austfonna” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Austfonna”
- Azerbaijani: “Austfonna buzlağı”
- Azerbaijani: “Ostfonna buzlağı”
- Basque: “Austfonna”
- Catalan: “Austfonna”
- Chinese: “奧斯特方納冰帽”
- Dutch: “Austfonna”
- French: “Austfonna”
- German: “Austfonna”
- Italian: “Austfonna”
- Japanese: “アウストフォナ氷河”
- Japanese: “アウスト氷河”
- Northern Sami: “Austfonna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Austfonna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Austfonna”
- Norwegian: “Austfonna”
- Portuguese: “Austfonna”
- Russian: “Остфонна”
- Spanish: “Austfonna”
- Swedish: “Austfonna”
- Turkish: “Austfonna”
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