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Dettifoss

Dettifoss is a waterfall in in Northeast , and is reputed to be the second most powerful waterfall in Europe after the .
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Photo: Spike, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Waterfall
  • Description: waterfall
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest

Highlights include Selfoss and Hafragilsfoss.

Waterfall
Photo: Tillea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a waterfall on the river Jökulsá á Fjöllum in the north of . The river drops over a number of waterfalls over about 30 km before flowing into Öxarfjörður, a bay of the Arctic Sea.

Waterfall
Photo: Burras, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a waterfall in . The waterfall flows downstream from Dettifoss within the depths of the Jökulságljúfur canyon. This waterfall is also on the glacial river Jökulsá á Fjöllum, making it a powerful waterfall.

Dettifoss

Latitude
65.8143° or 65° 48′ 52″ north
Longitude
-16.3844° or 16° 23′ 4″ west
Elevation
339 metres (1,112 feet)
Height
45 metres (148 feet)
Width
100 metres (328 feet)
Open location code
9CQ5RJ78+P6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 571990614
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­waterfall
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Geo­Names ID
2632268
Wiki­data ID
Q210280
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Dettifoss” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ديتيفوس”
  • Armenian: “Դետտիֆոսս”
  • Basque: “Dettifoss”
  • Belarusian: “Дэціфос”
  • Bosnian: “Dettifoss”
  • Bulgarian: “Детифос”
  • Catalan: “Dettifoss”
  • Cebuano: “Dettifoss”
  • Chinese: “代蒂瀑布”
  • Chinese: “黛提瀑布”
  • Czech: “Dettifoss”
  • Danish: “Dettifoss”
  • Dutch: “Dettifoss”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديتيفوس”
  • Esperanto: “Dettifoss”
  • Estonian: “Dettifoss”
  • Estonian: “Dettifossi juga”
  • Finnish: “Dettifoss”
  • French: “Dettifoss”
  • Galician: “Dettifoss”
  • German: “Dettifoss”
  • Hebrew: “מפל דטיפוס”
  • Hungarian: “Dettifoss”
  • Icelandic: “Dettifoss”
  • Indonesian: “Air terjun Dettifoss”
  • Indonesian: “Dettifoss”
  • Italian: “Dettifoss”
  • Korean: “데티포스”
  • Lithuanian: “Detifosas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dettifoss”
  • Malayalam: “ഡേറ്റിഫോസ്സ്”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “ديتيفوس”
  • North Levantine Arabic: “ديتيفوس”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dettifoss”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dettifoss”
  • Norwegian: “Dettifoss”
  • Ossetian: “Деттифосс”
  • Persian: “آبشار دتیفوس”
  • Persian: “ابشار دتیفوس”
  • Polish: “Dettifoss”
  • Portuguese: “Dettifoss”
  • Romanian: “Dettifoss”
  • Russian: “Деттифосс”
  • Scots: “Dettifoss”
  • Sindhi: “ڊٽيفاس آبشار”
  • Slovak: “Dettifoss”
  • Slovenian: “Dettifoss”
  • Spanish: “Dettifoss”
  • Swedish: “Dettifoss”
  • Tatar: “Dettifoss”
  • Turkish: “Dettifoss”
  • Ukrainian: “Деттіфосс”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈٹیفوس چھمبر”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Dettifoss”. Photo: Spike, CC BY-SA 4.0.