Southern Peninsula
Southern Peninsula is an administrative unit and part of Reykjanesskagi, or Reykjanes Peninsula, a region in southwest Iceland. It was named after Reykjanes, the southwestern tip of Reykjanesskagi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: region of Iceland with 27,800 residents
- Description: region in Iceland
- Also known as: “Reykjanes”, “Southern Peninsula Region”, “Sudurnes”, and “Suðurnes”
- Neighbors: South Iceland
Places of Interest
Highlights include Litli-Hrútur and Stóri-Hrútur.
Litli-Hrútur
Peak
Photo: Anthony Quintano, CC BY 2.0.
Fagradalsfjall is an active tuya volcano formed in the Last Glacial Period on the Reykjanes Peninsula, around 40 kilometres from Reykjavík, Iceland. Fagradalsfjall is also the name for the wider volcanic system covering an area 5 kilometres wide and 16 kilometres long between the Eldvörp–Svartsengi and Krýsuvík systems.
Stóri-Hrútur
Peak
Photo: Berserkur, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stóri-Hrútur is a peak, which is situated 3½ km south of Southern Peninsula.
Southern Peninsula
- Location: Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Southern Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Suðurnes”
- Albanian: “Gadishulli Jugor”
- Arabic: “شبه الجزيرة الجنوبية”
- Armenian: “Սուդուրնես”
- Azerbaijani: “Sudurnes”
- Azerbaijani: “Südürnes”
- Basque: “Suðurnes”
- Belarusian: “Судурнэс”
- Bengali: “সাউদার্ন পেনিনসোলা অঞ্চল”
- Breton: “Suðurnes”
- Catalan: “Sudurnes”
- Catalan: “Suðurnes”
- Cebuano: “Suðurnes”
- Chinese: “Suðurnes”
- Chinese: “南半岛区”
- Chinese: “南半島區”
- Czech: “Suðurnes”
- Danish: “Suðurnes”
- Dutch: “Sudhurnes”
- Dutch: “Sudurnes”
- Dutch: “Suðurnes”
- Esperanto: “Sudduoninsulo”
- Esperanto: “Suðurnes”
- Estonian: “Suðurnes”
- Finnish: “Suðurnes”
- French: “Péninsule méridionale”
- French: “Sudurnes”
- French: “Suðurnes”
- Galician: “Suðurnes”
- Georgian: “სუდურნესი”
- German: “Sudurnes”
- German: “Suðurnes”
- Greek: “Νότια Χερσόνησος”
- Gujarati: “દક્ષિણી પેનિનસુલા પ્રદેશ”
- Hebrew: “סוד’ורנס”
- Hindi: “दक्षिणी प्रायद्वीप क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Déli-félszigeti régió”
- Icelandic: “Suðurnes”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Semenanjung Selatan”
- Indonesian: “Semenanjung Reykjanes”
- Indonesian: “Sudurnes”
- Irish: “Suðurnes”
- Italian: “Penisola meridionale”
- Italian: “Sudurnes”
- Italian: “Suðurnes”
- Japanese: “アイスランド南部半島地方”
- Japanese: “レイキャネース地方”
- Japanese: “南西アイスランド”
- Kannada: “ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಪೆನಿನ್ಸುಲಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “쉬뒤르네스”
- Latin: “Suðurnes”
- Latvian: “Dienvidu pussala”
- Lithuanian: “Sudurnesas”
- Low German: “Suðurnes”
- Macedonian: “Јужен Полуостров”
- Malay: “Daerah Selatan Semenanjung, Iceland”
- Malay: “Semenanjung Selatan”
- Marathi: “सौथर्न पेनीनसुला प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Suðurnes”
- Northern Frisian: “Suðurnes”
- Northern Sami: “Suðurnes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Suðurnes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suðurnes”
- Norwegian: “Suðurnes”
- Persian: “سودورنس”
- Persian: “شبهجزیره جنوبی ایسلند”
- Polish: “Półwysep Reykjanes”
- Polish: “Suðurnes”
- Portuguese: “Península Austral ou Sudoeste”
- Portuguese: “Península Sul”
- Portuguese: “Suðurnes”
- Pushto: “سودورنس”
- Russian: “Сюдюрнес”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Suðurnes”
- Serbian: “Sidirnes”
- Serbian: “Сидирнес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Suðurnes”
- Sinhala: “දකුණු පෙනින්සුලා කලාපය”
- Slovenian: “Južni polotok”
- Slovenian: “Sudurnes”
- Slovenian: “Suðurnes”
- Spanish: “Región Suðurnes”
- Spanish: “Sudurnes”
- Spanish: “Suðurnes”
- Spanish: “Suroccidental”
- Swedish: “Södra halvön”
- Swedish: “Sudhurnes”
- Swedish: “Sudurnes”
- Swedish: “Suðurnes”
- Tamil: “தெற்கு பெனின்சுலா பகுதி”
- Telugu: “దక్షిణ పెనిన్సులా ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เขตคาบสมุทรเหนือ(ไอซ์แลนด์)”
- Turkish: “Güney Yarımada”
- Turkish: “Reykjanes Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Sudurnes”
- Turkish: “Suðurnes”
- Ukrainian: “Судурнес”
- Ukrainian: “Сюдюрнес”
- Urdu: “جنوبی جزیرہ نما”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Phía Nam Peninsula”
- Vlaams: “Suðurnes”
- Welsh: “Reykjanesskagi”
- Welsh: “Suðurnes”
- Western Panjabi: “جنوبی جزیرہ نما (آئس لینڈ)”
- Western Panjabi: “جنوبی جزیرہ نما”
- Wu Chinese: “西南区 (冰岛)”
- Wu Chinese: “西南区（冰岛）”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Svartsengi and Vogar.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fagradals-Vatnsfell and Fagradals-Hagafell.
Iceland: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Reykjavík, Akureyri, Kópavogur, and Hafnarfjörður.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
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