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.- Mountain rising to 1,235 metres (4,052 feet)
- Description: mountain in Iceland
- Also known as“Vatna Mountain”“Vatnafjoell”
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Latitude
63.93333° or 63° 56′ north
Longitude
-19.6° or 19° 36′ west
Open location code
9CM2WCM2+82
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Vatnafjöll” goes by many names.
فاتنافولArabic
VatnafjöllBasque
VatnafjöllCebuano
VatnafjöllDutch
جبل ڤاتنافچولEgyptian Arabic
ΒάτναφιετλGreek
VatnafjöllIcelandic
VatnafjöllItalian
ヴァトナフィヨットルJapanese
VatnafjöllLadin
VatnafjöllNorwegian
VatnafjöllNorwegian Bokmål
VatnafjöllNorwegian Nynorsk
VatnafjöllPolish
VatnafjöllSwedish
ВатнафйотльUkrainian
VatnafjöllVenetian
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