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Kebnekaise
Sign in to saveKebnekaise (; from Sami or , "Cauldron Crest") is the highest mountain in Sweden. The Kebnekaise massif, which is part of the Scandinavian mountain range, has two main peaks. The glaciated southern peak used to be the highest at above sea level, but has shrunk by 24 meters during the last 50 years, making the northern icefree peak at the highest. Kebnekaise lies in Swedish Lapland, about north of the Arctic Circle and west of Kiruna near the Kungsleden hiking trail between Abisko and Hemavan.
Kebnekaise is Sweden's highest mountain, located in Swedish Lapland as part of the Scandinavian mountain range. It has gained attention in recent decades because its southern peak, which was traditionally the highest point, has shrunk by 24 meters over 50 years due to glacier loss, causing the northern peak to become the new highest summit.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain_region, across 3 mapped points.
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Key facts
- Mountain.map_size
- 200
- Mountain.name
- Kebnekaise
- Mountain.photo
- Kebnekaise viewed from Tarfala valley - narrower crop.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Eastern slopes of Kebnekaise as seen from the Tarfala Valley
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 2096.8
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1738
- Mountain.map
- Sweden
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.listing
- Country high pointUltra
- Mountain.location
- Sweden
- Mountain.range
- Scandinavian Mountains
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 22 August 1883 by Charles Rabot
- Mountain.easiest_route
- rock/ice walk; most popular route includes simple scrambling
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Kiruna Municipality
- Elevation
- 2135
- Image
- Kebnekaise view of the tops from the south.jpg
- Significant event
- first ascent
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- described by source
- National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan
- Commons category
- Kebnekaise
- Commons gallery
- Kebnekaise
- topographic isolation
- 757
- topographic prominence
- 1000
- mountain range
- Scandinavian Mountains
- native label
- Kebnekaise
- Köppen climate classification
- alpine climate
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Climbing routes
- Climbing history
- Norwegian military plane crash
- Panorama
- See also
- Gallery
- References
- External links
Kebnekaise (; from Sami or , "Cauldron Crest") is the highest mountain in Sweden. The Kebnekaise massif, which is part of the Scandinavian mountain range, has two main peaks. The glaciated southern peak used to be the highest at above sea level, but has shrunk by 24 meters during the last 50 years, making the northern icefree peak at the highest. Kebnekaise lies in Swedish Lapland, about north of the Arctic Circle and west of Kiruna near the Kungsleden hiking trail between Abisko and Hemavan.
==Geography==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kebnekaise” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
3 mapped locations