Chadwickryggen
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Chadwickryggen is a mountain
on Spitsbergen
in Svalbard
, Norway
. At 1640 metres (5,380.6 ft) high, it is the fourth-largest peak on Svalbard. It is located west of Wijdefjorden between Smutsbreen and Ryggvebreen in Ny-Friesland
. It is named for the English physicist James Chadwick
(1891–1974).
Mountain
Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...
on Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Constituting the western-most bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea...
in Svalbard
Svalbard
Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic, constituting the northernmost part of Norway. It is located north of mainland Europe, midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The group of islands range from 74° to 81° north latitude , and from 10° to 35° east longitude. Spitsbergen is the...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. At 1640 metres (5,380.6 ft) high, it is the fourth-largest peak on Svalbard. It is located west of Wijdefjorden between Smutsbreen and Ryggvebreen in Ny-Friesland
Ny-Friesland
Ny-Friesland is the land area between Wijdefjorden and Hinlopenstretet on Spitsbergen, Svalbard.The area is named after the Dutch province of Friesland....
. It is named for the English physicist James Chadwick
James Chadwick
Sir James Chadwick CH FRS was an English Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron....
(1891–1974).