Glerá
The Glerá is a river in northern Iceland. It originates from glaciers in the mountains of the Tröllaskagi peninsula and also draws from some freshwater springs on its way down Glerá Valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Iceland
- Also known as: “Glera”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Akureyrarkirkja and Akureyri Art Museum.
Akureyrarkirkja
Church
Photo: Jon Gretarsson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Akureyrarkirkja or The Church of Akureyri is a prominent Lutheran church at Akureyri in northern Iceland. Located in the centre of the city, it was designed by Guðjón Samúelsson and completed in 1940.
Akureyri Art Museum
Art gallery
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The Akureyri Art Museum was founded in 1993. The museum is located in the center of Akureyri, the second-largest city in Iceland. Originally home to a dairy, the building which houses the gallery is noted as a good example of the Bauhaus school of architecture.
Glerárkirkja
Church
Glerárkirkja is a church in Akureyri, Iceland. It is a parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland. In 1969 a building committee was formed to find a place for a new church for the neighborhood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Akureyri and Svalbarðseyri.
Akureyri
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Akureyri, with a population of around 19,000, is the largest town in Iceland outside the Southwest region, and the unofficial capital of North Iceland.
Svalbarðseyri
Village
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Svalbarðseyri is a small village in the Svalbarðsstrandarhreppur municipality, northern Iceland, which in January 2011 had 245 inhabitants. It is located on the east coast of Eyjafjörður fjord. Svalbarðseyri is situated 6 km north of Glerá.
Glerá
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Northeast, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Venetian—“Glerá” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Glerá”
- Belarusian: “Глераў”
- Belarusian: “Рака Глераў”
- Cebuano: “Glerá”
- Chinese: “格莱尔河”
- Chinese: “格萊爾河”
- Chuvash: “Глерау”
- Dutch: “Glerá”
- French: “Glera”
- French: “Glerá”
- German: “Glera”
- German: “Glerá”
- Hungarian: “Glerá”
- Icelandic: “Glerá”
- Irish: “Glerá”
- Italian: “Glerá”
- Japanese: “グレールアゥ”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Glera”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Glerá”
- Polish: “Glera”
- Polish: “Glerá”
- Portuguese: “Glerá”
- Russian: “Глерау”
- Swedish: “Glerá”
- Ukrainian: “Глерау”
- Venetian: “Fiume Glerá”
- “Glerá”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Glerá”. Photo: Biekko, CC BY-SA 3.0.