Vatnafjöll
Vatnafjöll is a 40 km long, 9 km wide basaltic fissure vent system that is south-east of Hekla, Iceland. It includes from the north towards the south the hills of Innri-Vatnafjöll at 1,089 m high, Fremri-Vatnafjöll at 901 m and Vatnafjallarani at 574 m as the main Vatnafjöll edifice, at a distance of about 7 km from Hekla.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 1,235 metres
- Description: mountain in Iceland
- Also known as: “Vatna Mountain” and “Vatnafjoell”
Vatnafjöll
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Rangárþing ytra, South Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Venetian—“Vatnafjöll” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Vatnafjöll”
- Cebuano: “Vatnafjöll”
- Dutch: “Vatnafjöll”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ڤاتنافچول”
- French: “Vatnafjöll”
- German: “Vatnafjöll”
- Greek: “Βάτναφιετλ”
- Icelandic: “Vatnafjöll”
- Italian: “Vatnafjöll”
- Japanese: “ヴァトナフィヨットル”
- Ladin: “Vatnafjöll”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vatnafjöll”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vatnafjöll”
- Norwegian: “Vatnafjöll”
- Polish: “Vatnafjöll”
- Spanish: “Vatnafjöll”
- Swedish: “Vatnafjöll”
- Ukrainian: “Ватнафйотль”
- Venetian: “Vatnafjöll”
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