Backlundtoppen is a mountain in Olav V Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a height of 1,068 m.a.s.l. and is located east of Billefjorden and west of Akademikarbreen. The mountain is named after Swedish-Russian astronomer Johan Oskar Backlund. It hosted a trigonometric station during the Swedish-Russian Arc-of-Meridian Expedition.[1][2][3]
Backlundtoppen | |
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Coordinates | 78°43′05″N 18°13′09″E |
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