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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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.
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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.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
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Nigardsbreen (lit. 'the Nigard Glacier') is a glacier arm of the large Jostedalsbreen glacier.
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