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Stallobreen is a glacier in
Oscar II Land Oscar II Land is the land area between Isfjorden (Svalbard), Isfjorden and Kongsfjorden on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The long glacier Sveabreen divides Oscar II Land from James I Land. The area is named after Oscar II of Sweden. Older name varian ...
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 ...
. It has a length of about 4.5 kilometers, and is located between the mountains of Stallofjellet,
Sparrefjellet Sparrefjellet is a mountain in Oscar II Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It reaches a height of 788 m.a.s.l. and extends over a length of about five kilometers. The mountain is located between the glaciers of Venernbreen, Eidembreen and Stallobreen ...
and
Heksefjellet Heksefjellet ("The Witch Mountain") is a mountain in Oscar II Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It reaches a height of 774 m.a.s.l. and is located between the glaciers of Heksebreen and Stallobreen, south of Eidembreen. The mountain is part of the m ...
, near the glacier complex of
Eidembreen Eidembreen is a glacier in Oscar II Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a length of about eighteen kilometers, and debouches into Eidembukta in Forlandsundet, between St. Jonsfjorden and Isfjorden. The glacier is named after Norwegian poli ...
. Stallobreen is named after the
stallo In the folklore of the Sámi people, Sámi, a Stállo (also Staaloe, Stalo or Northern Sami language, Northern Sami Stállu) is a large, human-like creature who likes to eat people and who therefore is usually in some form of hostilities with a ...
creature in Sami folklore.


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