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Galileotoppen is a mountain on Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway. At tall, it is the fifth-tallest peak on Svalbard. It is located west of Wijdefjorden northwest of Newtontoppen in the south of Ny-Friesland. It is named for the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564–1642).

Key facts

Mountain.name
Galileotoppen
Mountain.elevation_m
1637
Mountain.map
Svalbard
Mountain.map_size
150
Mountain.location
Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
mountain
Named after
Galileo Galilei
Country
Norway
Located in
Svalbard
Elevation
1637
Material used
granite
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topographic prominence
370
located in/on physical feature
Spitsbergen
time period
Silurian

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Galileotoppen is a mountain on Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway. At tall, it is the fifth-tallest peak on Svalbard. It is located west of Wijdefjorden northwest of Newtontoppen in the south of Ny-Friesland. It is named for the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564–1642).

==References==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Galileotoppen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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