Strupbreen is a

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located in

Lyngen Municipality Lyngen (; ) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lyngseidet. Other notable villages include Furuflaten, Lattervika, Nord- ...

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county,

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. The glacier is located in the

Lyngen Alps The Lyngen Alps (, , ) are a mountain range in northeastern Troms county in Norway, east of the city of Tromsø. The mountain range is located on the Lyngen Peninsula and it runs through Lyngen Municipality, Balsfjord Municipality, Storfjord Mu ...

, about north of the village of

Lyngseidet , , or is the administrative centre of Lyngen Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The village is located on an isthmus that is about wide between an arm of the Ullsfjorden and the Lyngenfjorden. The village is home to two grocery stores, ...

. Historically, the glacier has at times reached all the way down to the

Lyngenfjorden , , or is a fjord in Troms county, Norway. The long fjord is the longest fjord in Troms county and it is often used as the dividing line between "northern Troms" and "southern Troms". The fjord is located within the municipalities of Skjervøy, ...

. Today the end of the glacier lies about from the shoreline, with a small stream of water flowing from the glacier to the

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. The glacier, at about its

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maximum extent shed ice blocks onto the shoreline below. This formed a cone of ice separated from the main glacier snout. This cone was used as an ice supply for fishing vessels. The glacier and its associated ice-dammed lake were investigated by the

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Arctic Norway Expedition in 1969. Publications arising from this include work on the size and retreat of Strupbreen and on the drainage of the lake Strupvatnet. The ice dammed lake, Strupvatnet, was first explored by the English climbers

William Cecil Slingsby William Cecil Slingsby (1849–1929) was an English mountain climber and alpine explorer born in Bell Busk, near Gargrave, Yorkshire. In 1863 his family moved to Carleton where they opened a cotton spinning and weaving mill which operated for ...

and

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and the Norwegian Elias Hogrenning in 1898.

References

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