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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Fissure
- Description: volcano and a canyon in Iceland
- Also known as: “Eldgia” and “Eldgja”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ófærufoss.
Ófærufoss
Waterfall
Photo: Borvan53, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ófærufoss is a waterfall situated in the Eldgjá chasm in the western part of Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland. Until the early 1990s a natural bridge spanned the falls, but it collapsed from natural causes.
Eldgjá
- Categories: fissure vent, canyon, and landform
- Location: Skaftárhreppur, South Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Eldgjá” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Eldgjá”
- 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: “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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Highlights include Ljónstindur and Nyrðriófæra.
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