Svartifoss
Svartifoss is a waterfall in Skaftafell in Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland, and is one of the most popular sights in the park. It is surrounded by dark lava columns, which gave rise to its name.
- Waterfall
- …lies at an elevation of around 280 metres (900 feet)
- …stands 12 metres (39 feet) tall
- …is 4 metres (13 feet) wide
- Description: waterfall surrounded with basalt columns in Iceland
- Also known as“Basalt Waterfall”“Black Fall”“Svartfoss”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Magnúsarfoss and Hundafoss.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skaftafell.
Skaftafell
Skaftafell is a preservation area in Öræfi, southeast Iceland.
Svartifoss
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Latitude
64.02772° or 64° 1′ 40″ north
Longitude
-16.97529° or 16° 58′ 31″ west
Open location code
9CP522HF+3V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfall
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Svartifoss” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Svartifoss”
- Catalan: “Svartifoss”
- Cebuano: “Black Waterfall”
- Cebuano: “Svartifoss”
- Chinese: “斯瓦蒂佛斯”
- Chinese: “斯瓦蒂瀑布”
- Dutch: “Svartifoss”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سڤارتيفوس”
- French: “Svartifoss”
- Galician: “Svartifoss”
- German: “Basaltwasserfall”
- German: “Schwarzer Wasserfall”
- German: “Svartifoss”
- German: “Wasserfall in Basalt”
- Greek: “Σβαρτιφός”
- Hungarian: “Svartifoss”
- Icelandic: “Svartifoss”
- Indonesian: “Svartifoss”
- Italian: “Svartifoss”
- Korean: “스바르티포스”
- Low German: “Svartifoss”
- Luxembourgish: “Svartifoss”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Svartifoss”
- Ossetian: “Свартифосс”
- Persian: “ابشار اسوارتیفوس”
- Portuguese: “Svartifoss”
- Russian: “Свартифосс”
- Slovak: “Svartifoss”
- Spanish: “Cascada de basalto”
- Spanish: “Svartifoss”
- Swedish: “Black Waterfall”
- Swedish: “Svartifoss”
- Ukrainian: “Свартіфосс”
- Western Panjabi: “سوارٹیفوس”
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