Kerling
Mount Kerling is the highest mountain in the District of Eyjafjarðarsveit, in northern Iceland. It is only 13 km SSW of Akureyri. Its structure is mainly basaltic rock, but the uppermost part is rhyolite, which extends to Súlur mountain nearby and all the way around the head of the Glerárdalur valley to the lower slopes of Vindheimajökull on the western side of the valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hrafnagil and Munkaþverá.
Hrafnagil
Village
Photo: Bjarki Sigursveinsson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hrafnagil is a small village in Eyjafjarðarsveit, northern Iceland, which in 2016 had 260 inhabitants. The village has a school and a community center. The area has access to high-temperature geothermal heat, which is used to heat houses and greenhouses. Hrafnagil is situated 8 km east of Kerling.
Munkaþverá
Locality
Photo: Pietro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Munkaþverá was a Benedictine monastery in Eyjafjörður, Iceland. It was established around 1155 and was abolished when the country became Protestant in 1550. Munkaþverá is situated 8 km east of Kerling.
Kerling
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,538 metres
- Description: mountain
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Eyjafjarðarsveit, Northeast, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
65.55737° or 65° 33′ 27″ northLongitude
-18.25395° or 18° 15′ 14″ westElevation
1,538 metres (5,046 feet)Open location code
9CQ3HP4W+WCOpenStreetMap ID
node 334637844OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Kerling” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kerling”
- Dutch: “Kerling”
- French: “Kerling”
- German: “Kerling”
- Icelandic: “Kerling”
- Ladin: “Kerling”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kerling”
- Persian: “کوه کرلینگ”
- Polish: “Kerling”
- Russian: “Кедлинг”
- Russian: “Керлинг”
- Swahili: “Kerling”
- Swedish: “Kerling (berg i Island, Norðurland eystra, lat 65,55, long -18,26)”
- Swedish: “Kerling”
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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 “Kerling”. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.