Hekla
Hekla, or Hecla, is an active stratovolcano in the south of Iceland with a height of 1,491 m. Hekla is one of Iceland's most active volcanoes; over 20 eruptions have occurred in and around the volcano since the year 1210.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,491 metres
- Description: stratovolcano in southern Iceland
- Also known as: “Hecla”, “Hekkenfeldt”, “Heklo”, “Mont Hekla”, “Xekla”, “Έκλα”, “ヘクラ火山”, “ヘックラ”, and “赫克拉火山”
Hekla
- Categories: stratovolcano and landform
- Location: South Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
63.9927° or 63° 59′ 34″ north
Longitude
-19.66582° or 19° 39′ 57″ west
Elevation
1,491 metres (4,892 feet)
Open location code
9CM2X8VM+3M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Hekla” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hekla”
- Arabic: “هيكلا”
- Armenian: “Հեկլա”
- Asturian: “Hekla”
- Azerbaijani: “Hekla vulkanı”
- Basque: “Hekla”
- Belarusian: “Вулкан Гекла”
- Belarusian: “Гекла”
- Belarusian: “Гэкля”
- Bulgarian: “Хекла”
- Catalan: “Hekla”
- Cebuano: “Hekla (bolkan)”
- Cebuano: “Hekla”
- Chinese: “海克拉火山”
- Croatian: “Hekla”
- Czech: “Hekla”
- Danish: “Hekla”
- Dutch: “Hekla”
- Esperanto: “Hekla”
- Estonian: “Hekla”
- Faroese: “Hekla”
- Finnish: “Hekla”
- French: “Hekla”
- Galician: “Hekla”
- Georgian: “ჰეკლა”
- German: “Hekla”
- Greek: “Χέκλα”
- Hebrew: “הקלה”
- Hungarian: “Hekla”
- Icelandic: “Hekla”
- Indonesian: “Hekla”
- Italian: “Hekla”
- Japanese: “ヘクラ山”
- Kirghiz: “Гекла”
- Korean: “헤클라 산”
- Korean: “헤클라산”
- Latvian: “Hekla”
- Limburgan: “Hekla”
- Lithuanian: “Hekla”
- Macedonian: “Хекла”
- Marathi: “हेक्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hekla”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hekla”
- Norwegian: “Hekla”
- Ossetian: “Геклæ”
- Persian: “هکلا”
- Polish: “Hekla”
- Portuguese: “Hekla”
- Romanian: “Hekla”
- Russian: “Гекла”
- Serbian: “Хекла”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hekla”
- Slovak: “Hekla”
- Slovenian: “Hekla”
- Spanish: “Hekla”
- Swahili: “Hekla”
- Swedish: “Hekla”
- Tajik: “Ҳекло”
- Turkish: “Hekla”
- Ukrainian: “Гекла”
- Uzbek: “Gekla”
- Western Frisian: “Hekla”
- Western Panjabi: “ہکلا”
- Wu Chinese: “海克拉火山”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Skeljafell and Þjórsárdalur.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Hekla caldera and Öxl.
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