Vestfonna is an ice cap on the western part of Nordaustlandet, an island in Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Covering roughly 2,500 square kilometers, it is the third largest ice cap in Svalbard and in Norway as a whole, and it is separated from Austfonna, the larger ice cap that covers most of the rest of Nordaustlandet. 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: Vestfonna
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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: Vestfonna
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Sources
1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN: Protected areas at the coordinates of Vestfonna, World Database on Protected Areas
UNEP-WCMC and IUCNname_eng and desig_engQuote, name_eng and desig_eng
"name_eng": "Nordaust-Svalbard", "desig_eng": "Nature Reserve (Svalbard)"
Vestfonna (Wikipedia)
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Vestfonna is an ice cap located on the western part Nordaustlandet in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway.
Wikidata: Vestfonna
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