Brennisteinsalda
Sign in to saveThe Brennisteinsalda () is a volcano in the south of Iceland. Its height is about 855 m. It is situated near Landmannalaugar and not far from Hekla.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Brennisteinsalda
- Mountain.photo
- Brennisteinsalda volcano at Landmannalaugar in Iceland.jpg
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 855
- Mountain.translation
- sulphur wave
- Mountain.language
- Icelandic
- Mountain.location
- Iceland
- Mountain.map
- Iceland
- Mountain.relief
- 1
- Mountain.map_size
- 200
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.type
- Stratovolcano
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 1961
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- Instance of
- volcano
- Part of
- Torfajökull
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Rangárþing ytra
- Elevation
- 881
- Image
- Landmannalaugar Iceland 2005 2.JPG
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The Brennisteinsalda () is a volcano in the south of Iceland. Its height is about 855 m. It is situated near Landmannalaugar and not far from Hekla.
The name means in English: sulphur wave. It comes from the sulphur spots which have coloured its sides. But there are other colours, too: green from mosses, black and blue from lava and ashes, red from iron in the earth. It could very well be the most colourful mountain of Iceland and so its picture is often found in books and calendars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brennisteinsalda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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