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Store Knutsholstinden
Sign in to saveKnutsholstinden is a mountain in Vågå Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Jotunheimen mountains within Jotunheimen National Park. The mountain sits about southwest of the village of Vågåmo and about northwest of the village of Beitostølen. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Skarvflytindene to the east, Leirungstinden and Vesle Knutsholstinden to the southeast, Store Svartdalspiggen to the west, and Nordre Knutsholstinden to the north.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Knutsholstinden
- Mountain.other_name
- Store Knutsholstinden (unofficial)
- Mountain.photo
- Store Knutsholstinden 2005.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Seen from the north, from Raudhamran by Surtningssue
- Mountain.mapframe
- yes
- Mountain.mapframe zoom
- 9
- Mountain.mapframe wikidata
- yes
- Mountain.mapframe caption
- Interactive map of the mountain
- Mountain.location
- Innlandet, Norway
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 2342
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 969
- Mountain.isolation_km
- 12.1
- Mountain.range
- Jotunheimen
- Mountain.first_ascent
- 13 July 1875 (Johannes Thomassen Heftye, Knut Lykken, Gullik Gulliksen Lid)
- Mountain.listing
- 14 in Norway
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- topographic prominence
- 970
- mountain range
- Jotunheimen
- Commons category
- Knutsholstinden
- topographic isolation
- 12.25
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Knutsholstinden is a mountain in Vågå Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Jotunheimen mountains within Jotunheimen National Park. The mountain sits about southwest of the village of Vågåmo and about northwest of the village of Beitostølen. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Skarvflytindene to the east, Leirungstinden and Vesle Knutsholstinden to the southeast, Store Svartdalspiggen to the west, and Nordre Knutsholstinden to the north.
==Name== The first element is the genitive of the name of the large gorge Knutsholet. The last element is the finite form of tind which means 'mountain peak'. The name of the gorge is a compound of the male name Knut and hol which means 'hole', 'hollow', or 'gorge'. The reason for the name, and who the person Knut was, is unknown. The prefix store means 'the big' or 'the great'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Store Knutsholstinden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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