Eldfell
Eldfell is a volcanic cone just over 200 metres high on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in the Westman Islands. It formed in a volcanic eruption that began without warning on the eastern side of Heimaey on 23 January 1973.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: michael clarke stuff, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Helgafell and Vestmannaeyjar Airport.
Helgafell
Volcano
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Helgafell is an inactive 227 m volcanic cone located on the island of Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago in Iceland. The Stórhöfði peninsula immediately to the south of Helgafell in what is now southern Heimaey formed about 6000 years ago.
Vestmannaeyjar Airport
Aerodrome
Vestmannaeyjar Airport is a two-runway airport on the island of Heimaey, in Vestmannaeyjar, a small archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. The airport services seasonal, charter and medical flights as well as general aviation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vestmannaeyjar.
Vestmannaeyjar
Photo: Thomas Quine, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Vestmannaeyjar is a town on the island of Heimaey. Heimaey is the largest of 15–18 islands in the Westman Islands archipelago, just off the south-west coast of Iceland's mainland.
Eldfell
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 73 metres
- Description: mountain
- Categories: mountain, cinder cone, and landform
- Location: South Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
63.43232° or 63° 25′ 56″ northLongitude
-20.24728° or 20° 14′ 50″ westElevation
73 metres (240 feet)Open location code
99MXCQJ3+W3OpenStreetMap ID
node 445065622OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Eldfell from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Eldfell” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Eldfell”
- Arabic: “إلدفيل”
- Azerbaijani: “Eldfell”
- Azerbaijani: “Eldfetl”
- Basque: “Eldfell”
- Belarusian: “Вулкан Эльдфетль”
- Belarusian: “Эльдфетль”
- Bulgarian: “Елдфел”
- Catalan: “Eldfell”
- Cebuano: “Eldfell”
- Chinese: “埃尔德菲尔”
- Czech: “Eldfell”
- Danish: “Eldfell”
- Dutch: “Eldfell”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل الدفيل”
- Estonian: “Eldfell”
- Finnish: “Eldfell”
- French: “Eldfell”
- German: “Eldfell”
- German: “Kirkjufell”
- Hebrew: “אלדפל”
- Hungarian: “Eldfell”
- Icelandic: “Eldfell”
- Icelandic: “Heimaeyjargosið”
- Icelandic: “Vestmannaeyjagosið”
- Italian: “Eldfell”
- Japanese: “エルトフェットル”
- Korean: “엘드펠”
- Ladin: “Eldfell”
- Macedonian: “Елдфедл”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eldfell”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eldfell”
- Norwegian: “Eldfell”
- Polish: “Eldfell”
- Portuguese: “Eldfell”
- Russian: “Эльдфедль”
- Russian: “Эльдфетль”
- Serbian: “Елдфел”
- Slovak: “Eldfell”
- Spanish: “Eldfell”
- Swedish: “Eldfell”
- Turkish: “Eldfell”
- Ukrainian: “Ельдфетль”
- Venetian: “Eldfell”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Goslok and Páskahellir.
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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 “Eldfell”. Photo: michael clarke stuff, CC BY-SA 2.0.