Krafla
Krafla is a volcanic caldera of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone. It is located in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region and is situated on the Iceland hotspot atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which forms the divergent boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tillea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Krafla Power Station.
Krafla Power Station
Electrical generator
Photo: Desiderata, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Krafla geothermal power plant is a geothermal power generating facility located in Iceland, close to the Krafla Volcano and the lake Mývatn. With 33 boreholes, it is able to produce 500 GWh of electricity annually, with an installed capacity of 60 megawatts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Námaskarð.
Námaskarð
Locality
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Námaskarð is a locality, which is situated 9 km southwest of Krafla.
Krafla
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 650 metres
- Description: mountain and volcano in Iceland
- Categories: mountain, volcano, caldera, and landform
- Location: Þingeyjarsveit, Northeast, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
65.71423° or 65° 42′ 51″ northLongitude
-16.73032° or 16° 43′ 49″ westElevation
650 metres (2,133 feet)Open location code
9CQ5P779+MVOpenStreetMap ID
node 3098040531OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Krafla” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Krafla”
- Bulgarian: “Крафла”
- Cebuano: “Krafla”
- Chinese: “克拉夫拉火山”
- Chinese: “克拉布拉火山”
- Czech: “Krafla”
- Danish: “Krafla”
- Dutch: “Krafla”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كرافلا”
- Finnish: “Krafla”
- French: “Krafla”
- German: “Krafla”
- Icelandic: “Krafla”
- Italian: “Krafla”
- Japanese: “クラプラ”
- Korean: “크라플라 산”
- Korean: “크라플라산”
- Ladin: “Krafla”
- Lithuanian: “Krafla”
- Lithuanian: “Krapla”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Krafla”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Krafla”
- Norwegian: “Krafla”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Krafla”
- Persian: “آتشفشان کرافلا”
- Polish: “Krafla”
- Portuguese: “Krafla”
- Russian: “Крабла”
- Russian: “Крапла”
- Slovak: “Krafla”
- Spanish: “Krafla”
- Swedish: “Krafla”
- Ukrainian: “Крапла”
- Venetian: “Krafla”
- Western Panjabi: “کرافلا”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Krafla”. Photo: Tillea, CC BY-SA 4.0.