Surtshellir
Surtshellir is a lava cave located in western Iceland, around 60 km from the settlement of Borgarnes. Approximately a mile in length, it is one of the longest such caves in the country.Photo: Christoph Strässler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Surtshellir
- Type: Cave
- Description: cave in Iceland
- Categories: lava tube and landform
- Location: Borgarbyggð, West Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Surtshellir” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Surtshellir”
- Bulgarian: “Сурцелир”
- Catalan: “Surtshellir”
- Cebuano: “Surtsellir”
- Czech: “Surtshellir”
- Danish: “Surtshellir”
- Dutch: “Surtshellir”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سورتشلير”
- French: “Surtshellir”
- German: “Íshellir”
- German: “Stefánshellir”
- German: “Surtshellir”
- Hebrew: “סרטשליר”
- Icelandic: “Surtsellir”
- Icelandic: “Surtshellir”
- Indonesian: “Surtshellir”
- Japanese: “スルツヘトリル”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Surtshellir”
- Norwegian: “Surtshellir”
- Polish: “Surtshellir”
- Russian: “Сурсхедлир”
- Russian: “Сюртсхедлир”
- Spanish: “Surtshellir”
- Swedish: “Surtshellir”
- Ukrainian: “Суртсгедлір”
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