Langanes

Langanes is a peninsula in northeast . The name literally means "long peninsula". It is 45 kilometres long from southwest to northeast, ending in a thin strip of land called Fontur where there is also a suggestive lighthouse called Langanesviti.
Wikipedia
  • Peninsula
  • …lies at an elevation of 153 metres (502 feet)
  • Description: peninsula in Iceland

Langanes

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Latitude
66.29069° or 66° 17′ 27″ north
Longitude
-14.99531° or 14° 59′ 43″ west
Open location code
9CR772R3+7V
Geo­Names ID
2628770
Wiki­data ID
Q116969

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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Swedish—“Langanes” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Launqanes”
  • Basque: “Langanes”
  • Catalan: “Langanes”
  • Cebuano: “Langanes (lawis)”
  • Cebuano: “Langanes”
  • Chinese: “朗加半岛”
  • Dutch: “Langanes”
  • French: “Langanes”
  • German: “Langanes”
  • Icelandic: “Langanes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Langanes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Langanes”
  • Norwegian: “Langanes”
  • Polish: “Langanes”
  • Portuguese: “Langanes”
  • Russian: “Лаунганес”
  • Spanish: “Langanes”
  • Swedish: “Langanes (halvö)”
  • Swedish: “Langanes”

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