Eldgjá
Eldgjá is a volcano and a canyon in Iceland. Eldgjá is part of the Katla volcano; it is a segment of a 40 kilometres long chain of volcanic craters and fissure vents that extends northeast away from Katla volcano almost to the Vatnajökull ice cap.
- Fissure
- …lies at an elevation of 600 metres (1,969 feet)
- …is also known as “Eldgia”
- Description: volcano and a canyon in Iceland
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ófærufoss.
Eldgjá
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Latitude
63.9622° or 63° 57′ 44″ north
Longitude
-18.60768° or 18° 36′ 28″ west
Open location code
9CM3X96R+VW
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Eldgjá” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إلدجيا”
- Basque: “Eldgjá”
- Bengali: “এলডগিয়া”
- Catalan: “Eldgjá”
- Chinese: “埃尔德焦峡谷”
- Chinese: “埃尔德焦河”
- Danish: “Eldgjá”
- Dutch: “Eldgjá”
- French: “Eldgja”
- French: “Eldgjá”
- German: “Eldgjá”
- Hebrew: “אלדגאו”
- Hebrew: “אלדגיו”
- Hungarian: “Eldgjá”
- Icelandic: “Eldgjá”
- Indonesian: “Eldgjá”
- Italian: “Eldgjá”
- Japanese: “エルトギャゥ”
- Japanese: “エルトギャウ”
- Macedonian: “Елдгјау”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eldgjá”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eldgjá”
- Norwegian: “Eldgjá”
- Persian: “الدججا”
- Polish: “Eldgjá”
- Portuguese: “Eldgjá”
- Russian: “Эльдгьяу”
- Russian: “Эльдьау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Eldgjá”
- Spanish: “Eldgja”
- Spanish: “Eldgjá”
- Swedish: “Eldgjá”
- Ukrainian: “Елдг’я”
- Western Panjabi: “ایلدجا”
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