Forelryggen is a mountain ridge in
Haakon VII Land
Haakon VII Land is a land area in the northwestern part of Spitsbergen, Svalbard (part of Norway), between Woodfjorden and Kongsfjorden.
The area was named (as ) after the then King of Norway, Haakon VII, by Gunnar Isachsen, who mapped the ar ...
at
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 ...
,
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 ...
. The ridge reaches a height of 1,095
m.a.s.l.
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level vari ...
, and is located between the glaciers of
Fjortende Julibreen and
Hakebreen Hakebreen ("The Hook Glacier") is a glacier in Haakon VII Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a length of about five kilometers, and is a tributary glacier to the Fjortende Julibreen. The glacier is surrounded by the mountains of Målarryggen, For ...
. The mountain peak of
Foreltinden is located between the ridges of Forelryggen and
Målarryggen.
The ridge is named after Swiss glaciologist
François-Alphonse Forel
François-Alphonse Forel (; 2 February 1841 – 7 August 1912) was a Swiss physician and scientist who pioneered the study of lakes, and is thus considered the founder. He was also professor at the University of Lausanne and the Father of limnolo ...
.
References
Mountains of Spitsbergen
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