Esjufjöll
Sign in to saveThe subglacial Esjufjöll () volcano is located in the south-east part of the Vatnajökull icecap. Esjufjöll is a strict nature reserve (IUCN category Ia).
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Esjufjöll
- Mountain.photo
- Jökulsarlon.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Esjufjöll north of Jökulsárlón as nunataks of Vatnajökull glacier
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 1745
- Mountain.location
- Iceland, East Iceland
- Mountain.type
- Stratovolcano
- Mountain.age
- Holocene
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 1927?
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The subglacial Esjufjöll () volcano is located in the south-east part of the Vatnajökull icecap. Esjufjöll is a strict nature reserve (IUCN category Ia).
==Geography== The recognisable mountains associated with the volcano are nunataks within Vatnajökull. These are located about 20 km to the north of Öræfajökull volcano and about 20 km north-west of the Jökulsárlón glacial lake. The highest part of volcano is an ice-covered ridge called Snæhetta, whose assigned height is lower than previous figures, at . The mountain range to this ridge's south consists of four nunatak mountain massifs called Vesturbjörg, Skálabjörg, Esjubjörg and Austurbjörg, in a north-west to south-east alignment, with three valleys in between them. In the second half of the 20th century, a number of small nunataks appeared as the more southern ice cover decreased; and two of the largest are named Bræðrasker and Kárasker.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Esjufjöll” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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