Rondvasshøgde is a mountain ridge in

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The n ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The ridge is located in

Sel Municipality Sel is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Otta. The municipality also includes several notable villages including ...

although one end of the ridge extends across the border into

Folldal Municipality Folldal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Folldal. The municipality was established in 1914 when it was sepa ...

. The ridge consists of 3 main peaks: ''Rondvasshøgde Sentraltopp'', ''Rondvasshøgde Øst'', and ''Rondvasshøgde Øst 2''. The mountain lies about northeast of the town of Otta. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including

Veslsvulten Veslsvulten is a mountain in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain lies along the border between Folldal Municipality and Sel Municipality. The mountain lies just inside the boundaries of Rondane National Park. It is located to the west o ...

to the east, Hornflågene to the southeast, Simlepiggen to the southwest, and

Storronden Storronden is a mountain in Sel Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Rondane mountains within Rondane National Park. The mountain sits about northeast of the town of Otta. The mountain is surrounded by ...

and Svartnuten to the west. ''Rondvasshøgde Sentraltopp'' measures and it sits towards the western end of the ridge, just east of the mountain

. ''Rondvasshøgde Øst'' measures (the tallest of the three peaks) and this sits between the other two peaks. ''Rondvasshøgde Øst 2'' measures and this sits on the municipal border between Sel and Folldal. The mountain

lies just east of this peak.

Name

The first part of the name comes from the words which was probably the original name of the nearby lake

Rondvatnet Rondvatnet is a lake in Sel Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The lake is a long, narrow lake in Rondane National Park, about northeast of the town of Otta. The Norwegian Mountain Touring Association's tourist cabins at Rondvassbu are ...

and the second part is which means 'water', probably referring to the lake. Many of the mountains near the lake were then named after this lake. The

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ...

form of the name was which means 'stripe' or 'edge' (referring to the long and narrow form of the lake). The last element is which means 'high' or 'tall'.

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Mountains of Innlandet Folldal Sel {{Innlandet-mountain-stub

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