Langanes
Langanes is a peninsula in northeast Iceland. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Langanes
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula
- Category: landform
- Location: Northeast, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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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: “Langanes”
- Polish: “Langanes”
- Portuguese: “Langanes”
- Russian: “Лаунганес”
- Spanish: “Langanes”
- Swedish: “Langanes (halvö)”
- Swedish: “Langanes”
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