Fimmvörðuháls
Fimmvörðuháls is the area between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull in southern Iceland. The route between Skógar and Thórsmörk goes through this pass and is one of the most popular walking routes in Iceland, despite being 22 kilometres long and involving 1,000 metres of climbing.
Fimmvörðuháls
- Ridge rising to 997 metres (3,271 feet)
- Description: mountain pass between glaciers in Iceland
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Latitude
63.62425° or 63° 37′ 27″ north
Longitude
-19.42899° or 19° 25′ 44″ west
Open location code
9CM2JHFC+PC
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Fimmvörðuháls” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- Chinese: “菲姆沃聚豪尔斯”
- Czech: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- Danish: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- Dutch: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- Esperanto: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- French: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- German: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- Hebrew: “פימבורד’והאולס”
- Hungarian: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- Icelandic: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- Indonesian: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- Italian: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- Japanese: “フィムヴォルズハウルス”
- Macedonian: “Фимвердухалс”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- Norwegian: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- Russian: “Фиммвёрдюхаулс”
- Russian: “Фиммвёрдюхаульс”
- Swedish: “Fimmvörðuháls”
- Vietnamese: “Fimmvörðuháls”
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