Fjaðrárgljúfur
Fjaðrárgljúfur is a canyon in south east Iceland. The Fjaðrá river flows through it. The canyon has steep walls and winding water. It is up to 100 m deep and about 2 kilometres long.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirkjubæjarklaustur.
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Photo: Danapit, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kirkjubæjarklaustur, often called Klaustur is a village in South Iceland. With a population of around 160, it is the closest thing to an urban area within a vast municipality called Skaftárhreppur, and it's the only proper service centre on the almost 300km stretch of the ring road between Vík and Höfn.
Fjaðrárgljúfur
- Type: Tourist attraction with an elevation of 114 metres
- Description: valley in Iceland
- Categories: canyon and tourism
- Location: South Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
63.7726° or 63° 46′ 21″ northLongitude
-18.17372° or 18° 10′ 25″ westElevation
114 metres (374 feet)Open location code
9CM3QRFG+2GOpenStreetMap ID
node 1784678783OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Fjaðrárgljúfur” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
- Cebuano: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
- Chinese: “羽毛河大峽谷”
- Chinese: “菲亚德拉峡谷”
- Czech: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
- Dutch: “Fjadra”
- Dutch: “Fjaðrá”
- Dutch: “Fjadrargljufur”
- Dutch: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
- French: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
- German: “Fjadrargljufur”
- German: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
- Icelandic: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
- Italian: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
- Latvian: “Fjādraurgljūfirs”
- Low German: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
- Polish: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
- Portuguese: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
- Spanish: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
- Swedish: “Fjaðrárgljúfur”
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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 “Fjaðrárgljúfur”. Photo: Danapit, CC BY-SA 3.0.