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Memurutindene is a chain of mountains in the Memurutind
massif In geology, a massif ( or ) is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole. The term also refers to a ...
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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. It is located in
Lom Municipality Lom Municipality ( bg, Община Лом) is a frontier municipality ('' obshtina'') in Montana Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre � ...
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Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The n ...
county. The massif is home to 13 mountains, many of which have peaks over . Four peaks form the highest parts of the chain: * Store Memurutinden which reaches at the highest point *Austtoppen which reaches at its highest point *Vestre Memurutindane which reaches at its highest point *
Austre Memurutinden Austre Memurutinden is a mountain in Lom Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The tall mountain is located in the Jotunheimen mountains within Jotunheimen National Park. It is the 21st tallest peak in Norway. The mountain sits about sout ...
which reaches at its highest point The mountains surround a
glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such a ...
field called Austre Memurubrean, and to the south of Vestre Memurutinden is another glacier called Vestre Memurubrean, and to the north of the massif lies the large
Veobreen Veobreen is a glacier in the municipalities of Lom and Vågå in Innlandet county, Norway. The glacier is located within the Jotunheimen National Park. The glacier is located on the west side of the mountain Veotinden, north of the mountain St ...
glacier.


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List of mountains of Norway by height There are 291 peaks in Norway with elevations of over above sea level and that have a topographic prominence of more than 10 meters. The following list includes those 186 that have a topographic prominence of 50 meters or more. The topographic i ...


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Jotunheimen Lom, Norway Mountains of Innlandet {{Innlandet-mountain-stub