Sprengisandur
Sprengisandur is a highland plateau in Iceland, defined roughly as the area between the Hofsjökull and Vatnajökull glaciers.
- Type: Upland with an elevation of 759 metres
- Description: Highland plateau in Iceland
- Also known as: “Sprengisandur-Route”, “Sprengisandurpiste”, and “Sprengisandurroute”
Sprengisandur
- Categories: plateau, desert, sill, and landform
- Location: Northeast, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
64.81215° or 64° 48′ 44″ north
Longitude
-18.1425° or 18° 8′ 33″ west
Elevation
759 metres (2,490 feet)
Open location code
9CP3RV65+V2
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Sprengisandur” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Спренгисандур”
- Catalan: “Sprengisandur”
- Cebuano: “Sprengisandur”
- Chinese: “斯本雷吉森達”
- Danish: “Sprengisandur”
- Dutch: “Sprengisandur”
- French: “Sprengisandur”
- Galician: “Sprengisandur”
- German: “Sprengisandur”
- Hebrew: “ספרנגיסאנדור”
- Icelandic: “Sprengisandur”
- Italian: “Sprengisandur”
- Japanese: “スプレィンギサンドゥル”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sprengisandur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sprengisandur”
- Norwegian: “Sprengisandur”
- Russian: “Спрейнгисандюр”
- Spanish: “Sprengisandur”
- Swedish: “Sprengisandur”
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