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Eldey

Eldey is a small, uninhabited about 13 kilometres off the coast of the Peninsula in southwest . Located west-southwest of , the island of Eldey covers an area of about 3 hectares, and rises to a height of 77 metres.
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  • Type: Nature reserve
  • Description: island in Iceland
  • Also known as: “Eld” and “Melsaekken”

Eldey

Latitude
63.74094° or 63° 44′ 27″ north
Longitude
-22.95772° or 22° 57′ 28″ west
Open location code
99MVP2RR+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1210755913
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­nature_reserve
Geo­Names ID
3417587
Wiki­data ID
Q324541
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Eldey” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Eldey”
  • Azerbaijani: “Eldey”
  • Basque: “Eldey”
  • Catalan: “Eldey”
  • Chinese: “埃尔德岛”
  • Chinese: “埃尔德岩”
  • Chinese: “埃爾德岩”
  • Croatian: “Eldey”
  • Danish: “Eldey”
  • Dutch: “Eldey”
  • Esperanto: “Eldey”
  • Finnish: “Eldey”
  • French: “Eldey”
  • German: “Eldey”
  • Hausa: “Eldey”
  • Icelandic: “Eldey”
  • Indonesian: “Eldey”
  • Italian: “Eldey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eldey”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eldey”
  • Norwegian: “Eldey”
  • Polish: “Eldey”
  • Portuguese: “Eldey”
  • Romanian: “Eldey”
  • Russian: “Эльдей”
  • Spanish: “Eldey”
  • Swedish: “Eldey”
  • Turkish: “Eldey”
  • Ukrainian: “Елдей”

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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 “Eldey”. Photo: Dagur Brynjólfsson, CC BY-SA 2.0.