Esja
Esja is a 914 m mountain situated in the south-west of Iceland, about ten kilometres north of Iceland's capital city Reykjavík. Esja is not a single mountain, but a volcanic mountain range, made from basalt and tuff.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Axel Kristinsson, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 914 metres
- Description: icelandic mountain
- Also known as: “Esga”, “Esja Mountain”, and “Hábunga”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Þverfellshorn.
Þverfellshorn
Peak
Photo: Schneelocke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Þverfellshorn is a peak in the Esjan mountains of Capital Region in southwestern Iceland. It is located roughly 15 kilometres by air northeast of Reykjavík.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grundarhverfi and Mosfellsbaer.
Grundarhverfi
Village
Kjalarnes is the least populous district in the municipality of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, with a population of around 600 inhabitants. Grundarhverfi is situated 8 km west of Esja.
Mosfellsbaer
Town
Photo: OddurBen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mosfellsbær is a town in south-west Iceland, 12 kilometres east of the country's capital, Reykjavík. The coat of arms of the municipality is a tightly-knotted triquetra, a symbol often used in Celtic knotwork and strongly associated with the Celtic nations. Mosfellsbaer is situated 9 km south of Esja.
Esja
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Reykjavík, Capital Region, Southwest Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
64.24501° or 64° 14′ 42″ northLongitude
-21.65686° or 21° 39′ 25″ westElevation
914 metres (2,999 feet)Open location code
99PW68WV+27OpenStreetMap ID
node 4363603873OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Western Panjabi—“Esja” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Esja”
- Cebuano: “Esja”
- Chechen: “Есянь”
- Chinese: “埃夏山”
- Chinese: “埃斯加山”
- Czech: “Esja”
- Czech: “Esjan”
- Danish: “Esjan”
- Dutch: “Esja”
- Esperanto: “Esja”
- French: “Esja”
- French: “Esjan”
- French: “Mont Esja”
- German: “Esja”
- Hebrew: “אסיאן”
- Hebrew: “אסייה”
- Icelandic: “Esja”
- Italian: “Esjan”
- Japanese: “エシャン山”
- Japanese: “エジャン山”
- Ladin: “Esjan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Esja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Esja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Esjan”
- Norwegian: “Esja”
- Persian: “اسجان”
- Polish: “Esja”
- Portuguese: “Esja”
- Portuguese: “Monte Esja”
- Russian: “Esja”
- Russian: “Esjan”
- Russian: “Есянь”
- Russian: “Эсья”
- Slovak: “Esjan”
- Spanish: “Esja”
- Swedish: “Esja”
- Ukrainian: “Еша”
- Vlaams: “Esja”
- Western Panjabi: “ایسجان”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Gunnlaugsskarð and Hátindur.
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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 “Esja”. Photo: Axel Kristinsson, CC BY 2.0.