Ole Hansenkammen 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
Kongsfjorden (Kongs Fjord or Kings Bay) is an inlet on the west coast of ...
at
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 ...
,
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 ...
. The ridge extends over a length of about 5.5 kilometers, and has peaks of heights 819 and 686
m.a.s.l.
Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''.
The com ...
It belongs to the mountain group of
Generalfjella Generalfjella is a mountain group in Haakon VII Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is located east of Krossfjorden, between the bay of Tinayrebukta and the glacier of D'Arodesbreen. The mountain group is named after Norwegian army general Ole Hansen ...
, along with
Tverrkammen and
Austflanken. The mountain is named after Norwegian army general
Ole Hansen Ole Hansen may refer to:
* Ole Hansen (politician) (1855–1928), Danish politician
* Ole Hansen (officer) (1842–1922), Norwegian army officer
* Ole Christoffer Heieren Hansen (born 1987), Norwegian footballer
* Ole Jacob Hansen (1940–2000), No ...
.
References
Mountains of Spitsbergen
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