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Nigardsbreen

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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.

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Nigardsbreen (lit. 'the Nigard Glacier') is a glacier arm of the large Jostedalsbreen glacier.
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