Nigardsbreen, whose name means the Nigard Glacier, is a valley glacier that forms an arm of the larger Jostedalsbreen icefield in Vestland county, Norway. It lies about thirty kilometers north of the village of Gaupne in the Jostedalen valley, in Luster Municipality, just west of the Jostedola river, and covers an area of about forty eight square kilometers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Connections
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Glaciation via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Nigardsbreen
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Glaciology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Nigardsbreen
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Source Wikidata: Nigardsbreen
Sources
1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas: Protected area record for Nigardsbreen
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected AreasWDPA record, field desig_engQuote, WDPA record, field desig_eng
"desig_eng": "Nature Reserve"
Nigardsbreen (Wikipedia)
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Nigardsbreen (lit. 'the Nigard Glacier') is a glacier arm of the large Jostedalsbreen glacier.
Wikidata: Nigardsbreen
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