Frostisen
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or is a glacier in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is one of the larger plateau glaciers in Norway. Frostisen covers an area of about , and its elevation ranges from above sea level. The glacier lies near the Skjomen fjord, a branch of the Ofotfjorden, just southwest of the town of Narvik. The village of Elvegård lies about east of the glacier. The lakes Geitvatnet, Isvatnet, Kjelvatnet, Nordre Bukkevatnet and Søre Bukkevatnet lie southwest of the glacier.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- glacier
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Narvik Municipality
- Continent
- Europe
- Elevation
- 1724
- Image
- Frostisen summits above Skjomen.JPG
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- topographic prominence
- 1047
- topographic isolation
- 22.6
- Commons category
- Frostisen
- native label
- Ruostajiekŋa
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or is a glacier in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is one of the larger plateau glaciers in Norway. Frostisen covers an area of about , and its elevation ranges from above sea level. The glacier lies near the Skjomen fjord, a branch of the Ofotfjorden, just southwest of the town of Narvik. The village of Elvegård lies about east of the glacier. The lakes Geitvatnet, Isvatnet, Kjelvatnet, Nordre Bukkevatnet and Søre Bukkevatnet lie southwest of the glacier.
==See also== List of glaciers in Norway
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frostisen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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