Backlundtoppen is a mountain in
Olav V Land
Olav V Land is a peninsula in eastern Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipel ...
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Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway be ...
. It has a height of 1,068
m.a.s.l. and is located east of
Billefjorden and west of
Akademikarbreen. The mountain is named after Swedish-Russian astronomer
Johan Oskar Backlund. It hosted a trigonometric station during the
Swedish-Russian Arc-of-Meridian Expedition.
References
History of Earth science
Mountains of Spitsbergen
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