Backlundtoppen

{{Short description |Mountain in Spitsbergen, Norway}}

{{Use dmy dates |date=November 2023}}

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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.{{cite web |url=http://placenames.npolar.no/stadnamn/Backlundtoppen |title=Backlundtoppen (Svalbard) |publisher=Norwegian Polar Institute |accessdate=7 November 2013}}{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Norsk Fjelleksikon|title=Backlundtoppen|editor-first=Per Roger |editor-last=Lauritzen |editor-link=Per Roger Lauritzen |page= |year=2009 |publisher=Friluftsforlaget |location=Arendal |language=Norwegian |isbn=978-82-91-49547-7}}{{cite web |url=http://placenames.npolar.no/stadnamn/Akademikarbreen |title=Akademikarbreen (Svalbard) |publisher=Norwegian Polar Institute |accessdate=7 November 2013}}