Kvitegga is a mountain

Mountain

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 in the municipalities of Stranda

Stranda

Stranda is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stranda....

 and Ørsta

Ørsta

is a village and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre region of Western Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ørsta...

 in Møre og Romsdal

Møre og Romsdal

is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. The county administration is located in Molde, while Ålesund is the largest city.-The name:...

 county, 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...

. It is located about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) southeast of the village of Leira

Leira, Ørsta

Leira is a small village in the Hjørundfjord area of the municipality of Ørsta in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It lies between Bjørke and Viddal, at the end of Hjørundfjorden...

 (in Ørsta) and about 8 kilometres (5 mi) west of Hellesylt

Hellesylt

Hellesylt is a small village in the municipality of Stranda in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village lies at the head of the Sunnylvsfjord, which is a branch of the Storfjord, and which the more famous Geirangerfjord in turn branches off nearby...

 (in Stranda). The 1717 metres (5,633.2 ft) tall Kvitegga is located about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) northeast of the nearby mountain Hornindalsrokken

Hornindalsrokken

Hornindalsrokken is a tall mountain that is located on the border of the three municipalities of Stranda , Hornindal , and Ørsta...

.

Kvitegga is the highest mountain in the Sunnmørsalpene

Sunnmørsalpene

Sunnmørsalpene is a collective term for the mountains range in Sunnmøre, Norway. The mountain range encircles the Hjørundfjorden in the municipalities of Volda, Ørsta, Stranda, and Sykkylven. These mountains have peaks reaching straight up from the fjord....

 mountain range. It offers a very wide view, from the Galdhøpiggen

Galdhøpiggen

Galdhøpiggen is the highest mountain in Norway, Scandinavia and Northern Europe, at 2,469 m above sea level...

 in the southeast (just jutting above the Sikilbreen glacier), to the impressing Hurrungane

Hurrungane

Hurrungane is a mountain range in the municipalities Luster and Årdal in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway...

mountains further to the southeast, as well as all the local alpine surroundings and a wide swath of the ocean in the west.