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.
- Stream
- …is also known as “Skeiðar”
- Description: river in Iceland
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Latitude
63.78372° or 63° 47′ 1″ north
Longitude
-16.91591° or 16° 54′ 57″ west
Open location code
9CM5Q3MM+FJ
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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”
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Notable Places Nearby
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East Iceland: Highlights
Learn more about Vatnajökull National Park and Egilsstaðir.
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