Jostedalsbreen
Jostedalsbreen is the largest glacier on the European mainland. It is mainly located in the county of Sogn og Fjordane in Norway partly in Oppland county.
- Glacier with an elevation of 1,625 metres (5,331 feet)
- Description: largest glacier in continental Europe
- Also known as“Jostedal Glacier”“Kvandalsbr攓Nesdalsbreen”
Jostedalsbreen
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
61.7106° or 61° 42′ 38″ north
Longitude
6.9242° or 6° 55′ 27″ east
Open location code
9FH8PW6F+6M
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Jostedalsbreen” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Յսթեդալսբրին”
- Basque: “Jostedal glaziarra”
- Basque: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Belarusian: “Юстэдальбрэен”
- Catalan: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Cebuano: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Chinese: “傑斯特達冰河”
- Chinese: “約斯特谷冰川”
- Chinese: “約斯特達爾布林”
- Chinese: “约斯特达尔布林”
- Croatian: “Ledenjak Jostedalsbreen”
- Czech: “Jostedalsbre”
- Czech: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Danish: “Jostedalsbræen”
- Dutch: “Jostedalsbre”
- Dutch: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Esperanto: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Estonian: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Finnish: “Jostedalsbreen”
- French: “Jostedalsbreen”
- German: “Jostedalsbre”
- German: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Hebrew: “יוסטדאלסבריין”
- Hebrew: “יוסטדאלסברין”
- Hungarian: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Icelandic: “Jostedalsjökull”
- Italian: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Japanese: “ヨステダール氷河”
- Lithuanian: “Jostedalio ledynas”
- Luxembourgish: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Macedonian: “Јостедалсбрен”
- Northern Sami: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Norwegian: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Polish: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Portuguese: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Russian: “Йостедалсбреен”
- Russian: “Юстедалсбреен”
- Russian: “Юстедалсбреэн”
- Russian: “Юстедальсбре”
- Russian: “Юстедальсбреен”
- Serbian: “Јостедалсбрен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ledenjak Jostedalsbreen”
- Slovak: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Slovenian: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Spanish: “glaciar Jostedal”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Jostedal”
- Spanish: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Swedish: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Turkish: “Jostedalsbreen”
- Ukrainian: “Йостедал”
- Ukrainian: “Йостедаль”
- Ukrainian: “Юстедаль”
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