Nordaustlandet
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
Nordaustlandet (sometimes translated as North East Land) is the second largest island of Svalbard, with an area of 14,600 km². As its name suggests, it lies north east of Spitzbergen.
Much of Nordaustlandet lies under large ice caps, Austfonna (Europe's largest glacier), Vestfonna and Sørfonna, the remaining parts of the north being tundra inhabited by reindeer and walruses. Austfonna is the third biggest inland glacier in the world (after Antarctica and Greenland), being up to 560 metres thick and 200 km in circumference.
The island is uninhabited.
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External links
- Nordauslandet West (http://www.svalbard-images.com/spitsbergen/nordaustlandet-west-e.php)
- Nordauslandet East (http://www.svalbard-images.com/spitsbergen/nordaustlandet-east-e.php)nb:Nordaustlandet
