Stóra-Björnsfell
Stóra-Björnsfell is an elongated medium-sized tuya located in Iceland. It contains pillow lava, hyaloclastite and sheet lava. The volcano formed when a subglacial eruption occurred beneath an ice sheet during the last ice age.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 929 metres
- Description: mountain
- Also known as: “Stora-Bjoernsfell”
Stóra-Björnsfell
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Grímsnes- og Grafningshreppur, South Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
64.49552° or 64° 29′ 44″ northLongitude
-20.69676° or 20° 41′ 48″ westElevation
929 metres (3,048 feet)Open location code
99PXF8W3+67OpenStreetMap ID
node 4353128440OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Stóra-Björnsfell from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Stóra-Björnsfell” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Stóra-Björnsfell”
- Dutch: “Stóra-Björnsfell”
- German: “Stóra-Björnsfell”
- Icelandic: “Stóra-Björnsfell”
- Ladin: “Stóra-Björnsfell”
- Swedish: “Stóra-Björnsfell”
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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 “Stóra-Björnsfell”. Photo: Danapit, CC BY-SA 3.0.