Vatnajökull

Vatnajökull is the largest and most voluminous ice cap in , and the second largest in area in Europe after the Severny Island ice cap of . It is in the south-east of the island, covering approximately 8% of the country.
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Latitude
64.41998° or 64° 25′ 12″ north
Longitude
-16.82293° or 16° 49′ 23″ west
Open location code
9CP5C59G+XR
Geo­Names ID
2625477
Wiki­data ID
Q179734

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Vatnajökull” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vatnajökull”
  • Arabic: “فاتنايوكوتل”
  • Armenian: “Վատնաիյոկյուդլ”
  • Basque: “Vatnajökull”
  • Belarusian: “Ватнаёкуль”
  • Belarusian: “Ватнаёкутль”
  • Bengali: “ভাত্‌নাইয়োকুত্‌ল”
  • Bulgarian: “Ватнайокул”
  • Bulgarian: “Вахтнайокутъл”
  • Catalan: “Vatnajökull”
  • Cebuano: “Vatnajökull”
  • Chinese: “瓦特納冰原”
  • Chinese: “瓦特纳冰原”
  • Croatian: “Vatnajökull”
  • Czech: “Vatnajökull”
  • Danish: “Vatnajökull”
  • Dutch: “Vatnajökull”
  • Esperanto: “Vatnajökull”
  • Estonian: “Vatnajökull”
  • Faroese: “Vatnajøkul”
  • Finnish: “Vatnajökull”
  • French: “Klofajökull”
  • French: “Vatnajökull”
  • Galician: “Vatnajökull”
  • Georgian: “ვატნაიეკუდლი”
  • Georgian: “ვატნაოკული”
  • German: “Vatnajökull”
  • Hebrew: “ואטניוקול”
  • Hebrew: “ואכטנאיוקוטל”
  • Hungarian: “Vatnajökull”
  • Icelandic: “Vatnajökull”
  • Indonesian: “Vatnajökull”
  • Italian: “Vatnajökull”
  • Japanese: “ヴァトナヨークトル”
  • Japanese: “ヴァトナヨークトル氷河”
  • Japanese: “ヴァトナ氷河”
  • Japanese: “バトナヨークトル”
  • Japanese: “バトナヨークトル氷河”
  • Japanese: “バトナ氷河”
  • Kirghiz: “Ватнайёкюдль”
  • Korean: “바트나예퀴들”
  • Korean: “바트나이외쿠틀”
  • Latvian: “Vahdnajēgidls”
  • Lithuanian: “Vatnajokudlis”
  • Lithuanian: “Vatnajokutlis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vatnajökull”
  • Macedonian: “Ватнајекидл”
  • Malay: “Vatnajökull”
  • Malayalam: “വാട്നജോക്കുൾ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vatnajökull”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vatnajøkul”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vatnajökull”
  • Norwegian: “Vatnajökull”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vatnajökull”
  • Ossetian: “Ватнаёкуль”
  • Ossetian: “Ватнайёкюдль”
  • Persian: “واختنایوکوت”
  • Polish: “Vatnajökull”
  • Portuguese: “Vatnajökull”
  • Romanian: “Vatna joekul”
  • Romanian: “Vatna joekull”
  • Romanian: “Vatna jokul”
  • Romanian: “Vatna Jökull”
  • Russian: “Ватнаёкудль”
  • Russian: “Ватнаёкуль”
  • Russian: “Ватнайёкудль”
  • Russian: “Ватнайёкюдль”
  • Scots: “Vatnajökull”
  • Serbian: “Vatnajekidl”
  • Serbian: “Vatnajökull”
  • Serbian: “Ватнајекидл”
  • Serbian: “Ватнајекул”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vatnajökull”
  • Slovak: “Vatnajökull”
  • Slovenian: “Vatnajökull”
  • Spanish: “Vatnajökull”
  • Swedish: “Klofajökull”
  • Swedish: “Thórðarhyrna”
  • Swedish: “Vatnajökull”
  • Swedish: “Vattnajökull”
  • Thai: “Vatnajökull”
  • Thai: “วาตนาเยอคูตล์”
  • Turkish: “Vatnajökull Buzulu”
  • Turkish: “Vatnajökull”
  • Ukrainian: “Ватнаєкюдль”
  • Ukrainian: “Ватнайокутль”
  • Ukrainian: “Ватнайокюдль”
  • Vietnamese: “Vatnajökull”
  • Western Panjabi: “وٹنایوکل”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦特纳冰原”

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Localities in the Area

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