Katla volcano
Katla is an active subglacial volcano in southern Iceland. This volcano has been very active historically with at least twenty documented major eruptions since 2920 BC.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,512 metres
- Description: volcano in Iceland
- Also known as: “Katla”
Katla volcano
- Categories: subglacial volcano and landform
- Location: Mýrdalshreppur, South Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
63.62999° or 63° 37′ 48″ northLongitude
-19.04998° or 19° 2′ 60″ westElevation
1,512 metres (4,961 feet)Open location code
9CM2JXH2+X2OpenStreetMap ID
node 697312035OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Katla volcano from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Uzbek—“Katla volcano” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Katla”
- Arabic: “كاتلا”
- Armenian: “Կատլա”
- Basque: “Katla”
- Belarusian: “Вулкан Катла”
- Belarusian: “Катла”
- Belarusian: “Катля”
- Catalan: “Katla”
- Chinese: “卡特拉火山”
- Croatian: “Katla”
- Czech: “Katla”
- Danish: “Katla”
- Dutch: “Katla”
- Esperanto: “Katla”
- Estonian: “Katla mägi”
- Estonian: “Katla vulkaan”
- Estonian: “Katla”
- Finnish: “Katla”
- French: “Katla”
- French: “Katlogiaa”
- French: “Koetlegiaa”
- French: “Kotlugja”
- French: “Kötlugjá”
- Galician: “Katla”
- Georgian: “კატლა”
- German: “Katla”
- Greek: “Κάτλα”
- Hungarian: “Katla”
- Icelandic: “Katla”
- Indonesian: “Katla”
- Italian: “Katla”
- Japanese: “カットラ”
- Japanese: “カトラ山”
- Japanese: “カトラ火山”
- Kirghiz: “Катла”
- Korean: “카틀라 화산”
- Lithuanian: “Katla”
- Macedonian: “Катла”
- Northern Sami: “Katla”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Katla”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Katla”
- Norwegian: “Katla”
- Persian: “کاتلا”
- Persian: “کالتا”
- Polish: “Katla”
- Portuguese: “Katla”
- Romanian: “Vulcanul Katla”
- Russian: “Катла”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Katla”
- Slovak: “Katla”
- Slovenian: “Katla”
- Spanish: “Katla”
- Swedish: “Katla”
- Ukrainian: “Катла”
- Uzbek: “Katla”
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