Store Fornestinden Explained

Store Fornestinden
Coordinates:69.5651°N 19.9283°W[1]
Location:Troms, Norway
Elevation M:1477
Elevation Ref:[2]
Range:Lyngen Alps
First Ascent:3 August 1898 by Geoffrey Hastings, William C. Slingsby and Walter Perry Haskett-Smith

Store Fornestinden is a mountain in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The highest peak of any mountain in the eastern part of the municipality. The 1477m (4,846feet) tall mountain lies about east of the city of Tromsø and about west of the village of Lyngseidet in the neighboring Lyngen Municipality. The mountain is on the southern shore of the Kjosen fjord, an arm of the large Ullsfjorden.

The mountain consists of two peaks, the highest being Store Fornestinden at . The second peak named Litle Fornestinden, is slightly more northerly with a height of . The mountain is located in the Lyngen Alps, part of the Scandinavian Mountains.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Store Fornestinden, Tromsø (Troms) . . Norwegian. 2018-08-12.
  2. Web site: Store Fornestinden. biosphere.no. 2010-03-18.