Fugleberget (Spitsbergen)
| Fugleberget | ||
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 Hornsund with Fugleberget (front left) and Isbjørnhamna |
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| height | 569 moh. | |
| location | Wedel-Jarlsberg-Land , Svalbard Norway | |
| Dominance | 2.48 km → Vesle Skoddefjellet | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 1 '12 " N , 15 ° 33' 54" E | |
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The Fugleberget ("Vogelberg") is a 569 m high mountain on the island of Spitsbergen, which politically belongs to Norway .
It is located near the Isbjørnhamna des Hornsund bay in Wedel-Jarlsberg-Land . The mountain borders the Fuglebreen glacier in the northwest and Hansbreen in the east. Neighboring mountains are the Nunatak Vesletuva (543 m) in the north and the summit of the Ariekammen (513 m) in the west. Fuglebekken extends south to Isbjørnhamna. To the west of this is the Fuglebergsletta coastal plain, where a Polish polar station has been located since 1957 .
Web links
- Fugleberget . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).