Laponiahalvøya is a peninsula at
Nordaustlandet
Nordaustlandet (Anglicised as North East Land) is the second-largest island in the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, with an area of . It lies north east of Spitsbergen, separated by Hinlopen Strait. Much of Nordaustlandet lies under large ice ca ...
,
Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway be ...
, east of
Brennevinsfjorden and west of
Nordenskiöldbukta. The peninsula has a length of about 18 nautical miles. The landscape consists of mountains between 300 and 600 meters; the highest is
Snøtoppen
Snøtoppen (The Snow Top) is a mountain in Gustav V Land at Nordaustlandet Island, in Svalbard, Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Euro ...
(620
m.a.s.l.
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level vari ...
)
References
Peninsulas of Svalbard
Nordaustlandet
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