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Hakebreen ("The Hook Glacier") is a glacier in
Haakon VII Land Haakon VII Land is a land area at the northwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, between Woodfjorden and Kongsfjorden Kongsfjorden as seen from Blomstrandhalvøya Kongsfjorden (Kongs Fjord or Kings Bay) is an inlet on the west coast of ...
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Spitsbergen Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norw ...
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Svalbard Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range ...
. It has a length of about five kilometers, and is a tributary glacier to the Fjortende Julibreen. The glacier is surrounded by the mountains of
Målarryggen Målarryggen ("The Painter Ridge") is a mountain ridge in Haakon VII Land Haakon VII Land is a land area at the northwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, between Woodfjorden and Kongsfjorden Kongsfjorden as seen from Blomstrandhalvøya K ...
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Foreltinden Foreltinden is a mountain in Haakon VII Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It reaches a height of 1,275 m.a.s.l., and is located east of Tinayrebukta in Krossfjorden, between Målarryggen and Forelryggen. The mountain is named after Swiss glaciologist a ...
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Forelryggen Forelryggen is a mountain ridge in Haakon VII Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The ridge reaches a height of 1,095 m.a.s.l., and is located between the glaciers of Fjortende Julibreen and Hakebreen. The mountain peak of Foreltinden is located be ...
, Giardtinden, Fregatten and Haken.


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Glaciers of Spitsbergen {{spitsbergen-glacier-stub