Talk:Nordaustlandet

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It is rather misleading to say that the walrusses inhabit the tundra. They do stay on the beaches for long stretches of time. But they can also stay off shore (and on ice flakes) for long times. The beach is not what one normally thinks of when reading the word tundra. --Etxrge 13:45, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

There seems to be a dispute about area between the various language versions. The no: wiki and geohive (which uses data from Statistics Norway) state the area as 14,443 sq km, to which I have changed this article. The de: wiki goes with 14,600 (which this article originally had) but for which I can not find a source. I will try to hunt down a source for glaciation area as well. TheGrappler 07:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Austfonna appears to be a lot smaller than the Southern Patagonian icefield, which I found listed at 13 000 square kilometers [[1]]. Moreover some of the icefields on Ellesmere island (Agassiz Ice Cap, 17 326 km2) , Devon island (Devon Ice cap, 12 825 km2) ad others in the North of Canada are also a lot bigger [[2]]. So third biggest it is not. -- Lambreja, 21:08, 20 october 2006 (UTC)

Other, bigger icecaps on Ellesmere Island: Northern Ellesmere Icecap (27 666 km2), Prince of Wales Icecap (19 325km2) (see [[3]]) -- Lambreja, 19:13, 30 november 2006 (UTC)