Hvalfjörður
Hvalfjörður is situated in the west of Iceland between Mosfellsbær and Akranes. The fjord is approximately 30 kilometres long and 5 kilometres wide. The origin of the name Hvalfjörður is uncertain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Fjord
- Description: fjord in Iceland
- Also known as: “Hval Fiord” and “Hval Fjörd”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hallgrímskirkja.
Hallgrímskirkja
Church
Photo: TommyBee, Public domain.
Hallgrímskirkja, also known as Hallgrímskirkja í Saurbæ or Saurbæjarkirkja, is a church in Hvalfjarðarsveit, Iceland. Hallgrímskirkja is situated 3½ km northeast of Hvalfjörður.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grundartangi.
Grundartangi
Locality
Photo: Steinninn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Grundartangi is a locality, which is situated 6 km west of Hvalfjörður.
Hvalfjörður
- Categories: fjord and body of water
- Location: West Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Hvalfjörður” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հվալֆյորդ”
- Cebuano: “Hvalfjörður”
- Chinese: “华尔峡湾”
- Danish: “Hvalfjörður”
- Dutch: “Hvalfjordur”
- Dutch: “Hvalfjörður”
- French: “Hvalfjördhur”
- French: “Hvalfjordur”
- French: “Hvalfjorður”
- French: “Hvalfjördur”
- French: “Hvalfjörður”
- Galician: “Hvalfjörður”
- German: “Hvalfjördur”
- German: “Hvalfjörður”
- Hungarian: “Hvalfjörður”
- Icelandic: “Hvalfjörður”
- Indonesian: “Hvalfjörður”
- Italian: “Hvalfjörður”
- Japanese: “クヴァールフィヨルズル”
- Japanese: “ハヴァルフィヨルド”
- Korean: “크발피외르뒤르”
- Latin: “Hvalfiordum”
- Latin: “Hvalfjordum”
- Latin: “Hvalfjordus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvalfjord”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvalfjorden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvalfjörður”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hvalfjördur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hvalfjörður”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kvalfjord”
- Norwegian: “Hvalfjörður”
- Polish: “Hvalfjörður”
- Russian: “Хваль-фьорд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hvalfjörður”
- Spanish: “Hvalfjordur”
- Spanish: “Hvalfjorður”
- Spanish: “Hvalfjördur”
- Spanish: “Hvalfjörður”
- Swedish: “Hvalfjördur”
- Swedish: “Hvalfjörður”
- Ukrainian: “Гваль-фіорд”
- Ukrainian: “Хваль-фіорд”
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