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الدججا
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Eldgjá (, "fire canyon") is a volcano and a canyon in Iceland. Eldgjá is part of the Katla volcano; it is a segment of a long chain of volcanic craters and fissure vents that extends northeast away from Katla volcano almost to the Vatnajökull ice cap. This fissure experienced a major eruption around 939 CE, which was the largest effusive eruption in recent history. It covered about of land with of lava from two major lava flows.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Eldgjá
- Mountain.photo
- Eldgja.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Canyon floor of Eldgjá
- Mountain.elevation
- varies: canyon to
- Mountain.listing
- List of volcanoes in Iceland
- Mountain.location
- Iceland
- Mountain.map
- Iceland
- Mountain.relief
- 1
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location in Iceland
- Mountain.map_size
- 200
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.type
- Fissure vents of Katla
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 939
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- canyon
- Country
- Iceland
- Image
- Эльдгьяу.jpg
- Width
- 600
- Length
- 75
- Significant event
- volcanic eruption
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- discoverer or inventor
- Þorvaldur Thoroddsen
- time of discovery or invention
- 1893-00-00
- located in protected area
- Vatnajökull National Park
- vertical depth
- 270
- Commons category
- Eldgjá
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
Gallery (2)
On the map
3 mapped locations