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Olav V Land is a peninsula located at the eastern side of Spitsbergen, west of Hinlopen Strait and Ginevra Bay.

Olav V Land is a peninsula in eastern Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard named after Olav V of Norway. It is covered by the Olav V Icefield, measuring about 4,150 square kilometres (1,600 sq mi).[1]

The only larger ice cap in the Svalbard Archipelago is Austfonna in Nordaustlandet, with an area of 8,492 km2 (3,279 sq mi).

  1. ^ Glacier Atlas of Svalbard and Jan Mayen. 1993. Oslo: Norsk polarinstitutt, p. 32.

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