Hvalvatn
The lake Hvalvatn is situated east of Hvalfjörður in the western portion of Iceland. It lies to the east of the tuya Hvalfell. The surface measures 4.1 km2, and its greatest depth is 180 m.Photo: Milan Nykodym, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hvalfell.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brynjudalur.
Brynjudalur
Locality
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Brynjudalur is a locality, which is situated 9 km west of Hvalvatn.
Hvalvatn
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: West Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Venetian—“Hvalvatn” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Хвалватн”
- Cebuano: “Hvalvatn”
- Chuvash: “Хвальватн”
- Dutch: “Hvalvatn”
- Esperanto: “Hvalvatn”
- French: “Hvalvatn”
- German: “Hvalvatn”
- Icelandic: “Hvalvatn”
- Italian: “Hvalvatn”
- Japanese: “クヴァールヴァトン湖”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvalvatn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hvalvatn”
- Norwegian: “Hvalvatn”
- Polish: “Hvalvatn”
- Portuguese: “Lago Hvalvatn”
- Russian: “Хвальватн”
- Swedish: “Hvalvatn”
- Turkish: “Hvalvatn”
- Ukrainian: “Хвальватн”
- Venetian: “Hvalvatn”
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