Skeiðará
Skeiðará is a relatively short glacier river. It has its source on the glacier Skeiðarárjökull, one of the southern arms of the Vatnajökull in the south of Iceland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Laurent Deschodt, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Iceland
- Also known as: “Skeiðar” and “Skeidara”
Skeiðará
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Hornafjörður, East Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Skeiðará from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Venetian—“Skeiðará” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Skeiðará”
- Cebuano: “Skeiðará”
- Chinese: “斯凯扎河”
- Chinese: “斯凯萨鲁河”
- Chinese: “斯凱薩魯河”
- Chuvash: “Скейдара”
- Dutch: “Skeiðará”
- Finnish: “Skeiðará”
- French: “Skeiðará”
- German: “Skeiðará”
- Hungarian: “Skeiðará”
- Icelandic: “Skeiðará”
- Irish: “Skeiðará”
- Italian: “Skeiðará”
- Japanese: “スケイザルアゥ”
- Japanese: “スケイザルアゥ川”
- Macedonian: “Скејдарау”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skeiðará”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skeiðará”
- Norwegian: “Skeiðará”
- Polish: “Skeiðará”
- Portuguese: “Skeiðará”
- Russian: “Скейдара”
- Russian: “Скейдарау”
- Russian: “Скьейдарауо”
- Spanish: “Río Skeiðará”
- Spanish: “Skeiðará”
- Ukrainian: “Скейдарау”
- Venetian: “Fiume Skeiðará”
- “Skeiðará”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Skeiðará”. Photo: Laurent Deschodt, CC BY 2.5.