or is the ninth largest
glacier
A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...
in mainland
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
. The glacier is located in
Troms
Troms (; ; ; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. It borders Finnmark county to the northeast and Nordland county in the southwest. Norrbotten Län in Sweden is located to the south and further southeast is a shorter border with ...
and
Finnmark
Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...
counties. The glacier lies on the border of
Loppa Municipality (in Finnmark) and
Kvænangen Municipality
Kvænangen (; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Burfjord. Other notable villages in the municipality include Alteide ...
(in Troms).
The highest point was earlier known to have an elevation of . It is now due to glacier shrinkage. The mountain
Svartfjellet lies just north of the glacier in
Loppa Municipality. That is another of the highest points in Finnmark county. The lowest point on the glacier has an elevation of . The village of
Alteidet in Kvænangen Municipality is located nearby, along the
European route E6
European route E6 (, , or simply E6) is the main north–south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden. It is long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the countr ...
highway.
See also
*
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List of highest points of Norwegian counties
This is a list of the highest points (mountains, hills, glaciers) of all current Norwegian counties, ranked by elevation.
Highest points by former counties
(before 2016)
Ranked by elevation.
See also
* List of mountains in Norway by he ...
References
Glaciers of Finnmark
Glaciers of Troms
Kvænangen
Loppa
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