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Austfonna

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The southern third of Austfonna is sometimes called Sørfonna, which is a separate ice cap, separated from the main part of Austfonna by a long, ice-filled depression, and forming a separate crestal dome.
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Austfonna has a thickness of up to 560 metres (235 meters average thickness), and is 200 km in circumference. The ice dome reaches an elevation of 783 meters above sea level.
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Moholdt, G. & Kääb, A. A new DEM of the Austfonna ice cap by combining differential SAR interferometry with ICESat laser altimetry. Polar Res 31, 18460,
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in the northwest of the island is a totally separate ice cap (the third largest of Svalbard and Norway).
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ice cap in the southwest is also connected to Austfonna proper, specifically to
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Spatial and temporal variability in snow accumulation on Austfonna, Svalbard.
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Ice cap located on Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway
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http://www.cig.ensmp.fr/~iahs/sapporo/abs/jsh01/020760-1.html
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7,800 km (1,927,000 acres) (including Vegafonna)
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Nordaustlandet
Svalbard
Arctic Ocean
Norway
Coordinates
79°47.0′N 24°39.8′E / 79.7833°N 24.6633°E / 79.7833; 24.6633

ice cap
Nordaustlandet
Svalbard
archipelago
Norway
Severny Island ice cap
Novaya Zemlya
Russia
Vatnajökull
Iceland
Vegafonna
Vegafonna
Sørfonna
Vestfonna
List of glaciers in Svalbard
List of glaciers in Norway
https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v31i0.18460
"Hver er stærsti jökull í Evrópu?"
"Austfonna"


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