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Borgarnes
Borgarnes () is a town located on a peninsula at the shore of Borgarfjörður in Iceland and is the largest town in the Borgarbyggð municipality with a population of about 3800 residents. It is a main junction in Iceland and the gateway to the Snaefellsnes National Park. Iceland's capital Reykjavík is 69 kilometers from the center of Borgarnes. The second largest bridge in Iceland, the Borgarfjarðarbrú, connects traffic to and from Reykjavík.
Borgarbyggð
Borgarbyggð () is a municipality in the west of Iceland.
Eiríksjökull
Eiríksjökull (Icelandic for "Eirík's glacier", ) is a glacier north-west of Langjökull in Iceland, with an area of reaching a height of , atop the largest table mountain in Iceland which goes by the same name.
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Hraunfossar
thumb|Hraunfossar in snow and ice
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Baula
Baula () is a mountain situated in the west of Iceland near Route 1, Bifröst University, and the craters of Grábrók. The mountain's reddish or orange hue is caused by its rhyolite rock composition.
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Reykholt
village in Western Iceland
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Þórisjökull
right|upright=1.25|thumb|Þórisjökull Þórisjökull or Thórisjökull (, Icelandic for "Thóris's glacier") is a small glacier and volcano in western-central Iceland, to the southwest of Langjökull glacier. It has an elevation of . Kaldidalur lies in the foreground.
Hreðavatn
Hreðavatn () is a lake in the west of Iceland. It is situated near Route 1 (the Ring Road) between Borgarnes and the pass of Holtavörtuheiði. Nearby is the university faculty of the Bifröst University and the Grábrók craters as well as the mountain Baula.
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Prestahnúkur
The peak Prestahnúkur () with a height of , is in the Western Volcanic Zone to the west of the Highlands of Iceland to the west of Langjökull glacier, or to be more specific, to the west of Geitlandsjökull glacier, a part of the Langjökull. The volcano Prestahnúkur includes the terrain under the Geitlandsjökull glacier continuous to the peak and also includes fissure fields to its north and south.
Barnafossar
Barnafoss (), also known as Bjarnafoss , is a waterfall in Western Iceland on the river Hvítá in Borgarfjörður, about from Reykjavík. Located directly upstream from Hraunfossar, the two waterfalls flow out of the Hallmundarhraun lava field.
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Deildartunguhver
Deildartunguhver () is a hot spring in Reykholtsdalur, Iceland. It is characterized by a very high flow rate for a hot spring (180 liters/second) and water emerges at . It is the highest-flow hot spring in Europe.
Geitlandsjökull
Geitlandsjökull () is a lateral glacier of Langjökull, with a flowshed of from the second largest ice cap in Iceland at , in the west of Iceland. It has also been used as the name for the substantial Langjökull ice cap, as has the name Suðurjöklar. The highest point of Geitlandsjökull, which lies on top of a tuya, reaches a height of .
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Borgarfjarðarbrú
thumb|Aerial photograph showing Borgarfjarðarbrú and Borgarnes in the background Borgarfjarðarbrú (, "Borgarfjörður bridge") is the second longest bridge in Iceland, after Skeiðarárbrú. It spans Borgarfjörður, linking Borgarnes to Route 1 (the Ring Road) and connecting it with other parts of the country. The bridge is 520 m long and was opened on 13 September 1981, with repairs carried out in 2012. Before its construction, the Ring Road crosses the Hvítá river upstream from its mouth at Borgarfjörður via the bridge at Ferjukot, which opened in 1928.
Arnavatnsheiði
Arnarvatnsheiði () is a plateau in the west of Iceland. It belongs to the Highlands of Iceland.
Norðurá
river in Iceland
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Húsafell
thumb|240px|Mountain Tunga near Húsafell Húsafell () is a sprawling farm and church estate and the former site of a rectory. It is the innermost farm in Borgarfjörður in the west county of Iceland, not far from Reykholt and Reykholtsdalur. Húsafell farm now serves as a hub of service for various types of tourists visiting and residing in its surrounding area. The Húsafell surrounding area thus includes a wide array of second homes, tent sites, holiday housing and short term lodgings. Among its amenities are a swimming pool and a golf course. The wider Borgarfjörður region is also renowned for
Kaldadalsvegur
thumb|right|Kaldidalur Highland road The Kaldadalsvegur (, ) is the shortest of the highland tracks traversing the Highlands of Iceland, therefore the nickname "highlands for beginners" . Its name derives from the valley it crosses: Kaldidalur means "cold dale/valley". Sometimes the Kaldadalsvegur is referred to as simply "the Kaldidalur".