Kvalpyntfonna (Whale Point Glacier) is a glacier at

Edgeøya Edgeøya (), anglicised as Edge Island, is a Norway, Norwegian island located in southeast of the Svalbard archipelago; with an area of , it is the third-largest island in this archipelago. An Arctic island, it forms part of the Søraust-Svalbard ...

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 covers a mountain area northeast of

Kvalpynten Kvalpynten (Whale Point) is a headland at Edgeøya, Svalbard. It is the most southwestern point of Edgeøya. The headland contains the mountain Kvalpyntfjellet, and the summit of the glacier Kvalpyntfonna further east is the highest point on Ed ...

. Its summit at 551

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 ...

is the highest point on Edgeøya (while the

Müllerberget Müllerberget is a mountain in Edgeøya, Svalbard. It has a height of 534 m.a.s.l., and is the highest bare summit of Edgeøya (while the Kvalpyntfonna glacier reaches higher). The mountain is named after German zoologist Johann Wilhelm von Mülle ...

mountain is the highest bare summit).

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Glaciers of Svalbard Edgeøya {{svalbard-glacier-stub

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