Vestfonna on the island Nordaustlandet. It is separated from Austfonna, the island's largest ice cap.
Location
Svalbard, Arctic Ocean, Norway
Area
2,500 km2 (618,000 acres)
Satellite image of Nordaustlandet, Svalbard
Vestfonna is an ice cap located on the western part Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. The glacier covers an area of about 2,500 km2.[1] It is the third largest ice cap in Svalbard and Norway by area, after Austfonna and Olav V Land.
^Hagen, Jon Ove. "Vestfonna". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
Vestfonna is an ice cap located on the western part Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. The glacier covers an area of about 2,500 km2...
Much of Nordaustlandet lies under large ice caps, mainly Austfonna and Vestfonna, the remaining parts of the north being tundra inhabited by reindeer and...
412 km2 or 3,248 sq mi) on Nordaustlandet, followed by Olav V Land and Vestfonna. During summer, it is possible to ski from Sørkapp in the south to the...
Glittne ice cap, which is considered part of the former.[citation needed] Vestfonna in the northwest of the island is a totally separate ice cap (the third...
headland of Brageneset. Gimlebreen is a glacier stream from the large icecap Vestfonna. "Gimlebreen (Svalbard)". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 20 October...
has arranged annual expeditions on Svalbard since 2003 and is run by Vestfonna Geophysical AS and funded by the Norwegian Space Centre, ESA and NASA...
Brageneset and Idunneset. Bragebreen is a glacier stream from the large icecap Vestfonna. "Bragebreen (Svalbard)". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 20 October...
watershed in Rijpdalen is the plain of Helvetesflya. The ice caps of Vestfonna and Austfonna are separated by Rijpdalen and Helvetesflya. "Rijpdalen...
Vegafonna), 8,492 km2 (3,279 sq mi) Olav V Land, 4,150 km2 (1,600 sq mi) Vestfonna, 2,505 km2 (967 sq mi) Åsgårdfonna, 1,645 km2 (635 sq mi) Edgeøyjøkulen...
Svalbard. It is located at the mouth of Wahlenbergfjorden. The ice cap Vestfonna has the glacier arm Bragebreen which debouches east of Brageneset, and...
Bodleybukta. The highest elevation is 630 metres (2,070 ft) on the glacier Vestfonna, which covers large parts of the land. The coast is heavily indented,...
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