Vatnajökull
Vatnajökull is the largest and most voluminous ice cap in Iceland, and the second largest in area in Europe after the Severny Island ice cap of Novaya Zemlya. It is in the south-east of the island, covering approximately 8% of the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Vatnajökull
- Type: Icecap
- Description: largest and most voluminous Icelandic glacier
- Categories: ice cap and landform
- Location: East Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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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: “Vatnajokull”
- Danish: “Vatnajökull”
- Dutch: “Vatnajokull”
- Dutch: “Vatnajökull”
- Esperanto: “Vatnajökull”
- Estonian: “Vatnajökull”
- Faroese: “Vatnajøkul”
- Finnish: “Vatnajökull”
- French: “Klofajökull”
- French: “Vatnajokull”
- French: “Vatnajökull”
- Galician: “Vatnajökull”
- Georgian: “ვატნაიეკუდლი”
- Georgian: “ვატნაოკული”
- German: “Vatnajökull”
- Hebrew: “ואטנאיוקוטל”
- Hebrew: “ואטניוקול”
- 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 Nynorsk: “Vatnajøkull”
- Norwegian: “Vatnajökull”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vatnajokull”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vatnajökull”
- Ossetian: “Ватнаёкуль”
- Ossetian: “Ватнайёкюдль”
- Persian: “واختنایوکوت”
- Polish: “Vatnajokull”
- Polish: “Vatnajökull”
- Portuguese: “Vatnajokull”
- Portuguese: “Vatnajökull”
- Romanian: “Vatna joekul”
- Romanian: “Vatna joekull”
- Romanian: “Vatna jokul”
- Romanian: “Vatna jokull”
- Romanian: “Vatna Jökull”
- Romanian: “Vatnajoekul”
- Romanian: “Vatnajoekull”
- Romanian: “Vatnajokul”
- Romanian: “Vatnajokull”
- Romanian: “Vatnajökull”
- 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: “Vatnajokull”
- Spanish: “Vatnajökull”
- Swedish: “Klofajökull”
- Swedish: “Thordarhyrna”
- 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”
- “Vatnajökull”
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