Lykketoppen
Lykketoppen, occasionally anglicized as Lykke Peak, is a snow-covered, 765-meter tall summit that surmounts the southwest part of Bouvetøya, standing 1 nautical mile east of Norvegia Point.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 765 metres
- Description: mountain in Bouvet Island
- Also known as: “Lykkes Topp”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mosbytoppane and Larsøya.
Mosbytoppane
Peak
Mosbytoppane, are two crags to the southwest of the caldera of the island of Bouvetøya. The tallest is a snow-covered peak 670 meters above mean sea level and 1.3 kilometers northeast of Norvegiaodden.
Larsøya
Islet
Larsøya, sometimes anglicized as Lars Island, is a rocky island, less than 0.2 nautical miles long, which lies just off the southwestern extremity of the island of Bouvetøya in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Benn Skerries
Islet
Benn Skerries are a small group of rocks which extend up to 0.25 nautical miles westward from Norvegia Point on the island of Bouvetøya. They were charted and named in December 1927 by a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia under Captain Harald Horntvedt.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Circoncision and Cape Valdivia.
Cape Circoncision
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cape Circoncision is a peninsula on the north-western edge of subantarctic Bouvet Island. The small peninsula was sighted by the French naval exploration that was led by Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier on 1 January 1739, the Feast of the Circumcision day—thus the name.
Cape Valdivia
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cape Valdivia is the northernmost point on Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The subantarctic Bouvet Island is administered by Norway. Cape Valdivia lies in the centre of the island's highest point.
Lykketoppen
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Bouvet Island
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.43613° or 54° 26′ 10″ southLongitude
3.31378° or 3° 18′ 50″ eastElevation
765 metres (2,510 feet)Open location code
3FQ5H877+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 3321448730OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Swedish—“Lykketoppen” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Lykketoppen”
- Cebuano: “Lykke Peak”
- Cebuano: “Lykketoppen”
- Chinese: “利克峰”
- Dutch: “Lykketoppen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ليكيتوپين”
- French: “Lykketoppen”
- German: “Lykketoppen”
- Japanese: “リッケ峰”
- Ladin: “Lykketoppen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lykketoppen”
- Norwegian: “Lykketoppen”
- Spanish: “Lykketoppen”
- Spanish: “Pico Lykke”
- Spanish: “Pico Lykketoppen”
- Swedish: “Lykketoppen”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Cape Norvegia and Vogtkysten.
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Highlights include Engelbrecht Glacier and Kraterisen.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lykketoppen”. Photo: Fguerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0.