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Operafjellet

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Operafjellet ("The Opera Mountain") is a mountain on Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway. It is tall and is located on the north side of Adventdalen. It is named for the amphitheatre-shape of the mountain on the western side, with the peak Tenoren ("The Tenor") sticking up. On 29 August 1996, it was the site for the crash of Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 during approach to Svalbard Airport, Longyear, killing 141 people.

Key facts

Mountain.name
Operafjellet
Mountain.photo
Operafjellet-Seen-From-Plataafjellet.jpg
Mountain.elevation_m
968
Mountain.map
Svalbard
Mountain.map_size
150
Mountain.location
Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

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Instance of
mountain
Country
Norway
Located in
Svalbard
Elevation
968
Image
Operafjellet-Seen-From-Plataafjellet.jpg
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Operafjellet
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Operafjellet ("The Opera Mountain") is a mountain on Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway. It is tall and is located on the north side of Adventdalen. It is named for the amphitheatre-shape of the mountain on the western side, with the peak Tenoren ("The Tenor") sticking up. On 29 August 1996, it was the site for the crash of Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 during approach to Svalbard Airport, Longyear, killing 141 people.

==References==

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

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