Kerio Crater
Kerið is a volcanic crater lake located in the Grímsnes area in south Iceland, along the Golden Circle. It is one of several crater lakes in the area, known as Iceland's Western Volcanic Zone, which includes the Reykjanes peninsula and the Langjökull Glacier, created as the land moved over a localized hotspot, but it is the one that has the most visually recognizable caldera still intact.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Crater
- Description: volcanic crater lake in the Grímsnes area in south Iceland
- Also known as: “Kerið”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grímsnes.
Grímsnes
Volcano
Photo: Progresschrome, CC BY 3.0.
Grímsnes is a relatively small fissure or crater row volcanic system located in South Iceland, located south–east of Lake Thingvallavatn and east of the en echelon group of volcanic systems extending across the Reykjanes Peninsula, that erupted last in the Holocene.
Kerio Crater
- Categories: volcanic crater, volcanic crater lake, and landform
- Location: South Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Kerio Crater from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kerio Crater” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيري”
- Basque: “Kerið”
- Belarusian: “Возера Керыз”
- Belarusian: “Керыз”
- Catalan: “Kerið”
- Cebuano: “Kerið”
- Chuvash: “Кериз”
- Dutch: “Kerid”
- Dutch: “Kerið”
- French: “Kerid”
- French: “Kerið”
- French: “Volcan Kerio”
- German: “Kerid”
- German: “Kerið”
- Icelandic: “Kerið”
- Icelandic: “Tjarnarhóll”
- Italian: “Kerið”
- Japanese: “ケリズ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kerið”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kerid”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kerið”
- Norwegian: “Kerið”
- Polish: “Kerid”
- Polish: “Kerið”
- Polish: “Kerith”
- Russian: “Керид”
- Russian: “Кериз”
- Spanish: “Kerið”
- Swedish: “Kerið”
- Swedish: “Kerio”
- Ukrainian: “Керід”
- Ukrainian: “Керіз”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Borg in Grimsnes and Sólheimar.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Seyðishólar and Álftavatn.
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Kerio Crater”. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.