Store Bukkeholstinden | |
Map: | Innlandet#Norway |
Map Alt: | Map of the location |
Label Position: | bottom |
Coordinates: | 61.5792°N 8.3078°W[1] |
Location: | Innlandet, Norway |
Elevation M: | 2213 |
Prominence M: | 153 |
Isolation Km: | 2.1 |
Elevation Ref: | [2] |
Range: | Jotunheimen |
Parent Peak: | Bukkehøe |
First Ascent: | 4 August 1887, Alexander Walnum and Lars Sulheim d.e. |
Store Bukkeholstinden is a mountain in Lom Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The 2213m (7,260feet) tall mountain is located in the Jotunheimen mountains within Jotunheimen National Park. The mountain sits about southwest of the village of Fossbergom and about northeast of the village of Øvre Årdal. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Bukkeholshøi to the east; Nørdre Hellstugutinden, Midtre Hellstugutinden, and Urdadalstindene to the southeast; Tverrbytthornet and Kyrkja to the south; the Tverrbottindene ridge to the southwest and west; Bukkehøe and Lindbergtinden to the northwest; and Store Styggehøe to the northeast.
This mountain is the highest among the mountains called Bukkeholstindane, and lies on a ridge between the Bukkeholsbreen glacier in the north and the Tverrbytnede valley in the south.