Isachsenfonna is a plateau glacier in Haakon VII Land at the northwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It covers an area of about 140 km2, and reaches a height of about 900 m (3,000 ft) above sea level. The glacier is named after polar scientist Gunnar Isachsen, who traversed the glacier in 1906.[1]
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Isachsenfonna is a plateau glacier in Haakon VII Land at the northwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It covers an area of about 140 km2, and reaches...
length of about ten kilometers, and extends from the glacier cap of Isachsenfonna to Möllerfjorden, where it debouches into the bay of Tinayrebukta. The...
has a height of 1,449 m.a.s.l. and is located between Vonbreen and Isachsenfonna, north of Snøfjella. Eidsvollfjellet is the highest mountain in Haakon...
Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a length of 18 kilometres, extending from Isachsenfonna down to Kongsfjorden. The glacier is named after geologist Christian...
the Norwegian expedition to this area in 1930–31. The plateau glacier Isachsenfonna on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, a glacier he traversed in 1906, is named after...
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