Kirkjubæjarklaustur
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thumb|Kirkjubæjarklaustur's basalt Kirkjugólf (Church Floor) Kirkjubæjarklaustur (Icelandic for "church farm cloister", pronounced ; often referred to locally as just Klaustur) is a village in the south of Iceland on the hringvegur (road no. 1 or Ring Road) between Vík í Mýrdal and Höfn. It is part of the municipality of Skaftárhreppur and has about 500 inhabitants. It is surrounded by hills and plateaus to the north. Kirkjubæjarklaustur is roughly east of the capital city of Reykjavik.
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Place details
- Locality
- Kirkjubæjarklaustur
- Region
- South
- Country
- Ísland
- Population
- 119
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Key facts
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- Region
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- Kirkjubæjarklaustur
- Settlement.other_name
- Klaustur
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- Village
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- Kirkjubæjarklaustur Aerial 2023 B.jpg
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- Kirkjubæjarklaustur
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- Skaftarhreppur map.png
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- Location of the Municipality of Skaftárhreppur
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- Iceland
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- left
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- Location in Iceland
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Iceland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituency
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South Constituency
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- Southern Region
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- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Skaftárhreppur
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Kirkjubæjarklaustur
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Skaftárhreppur
- Official language
- Icelandic
- Population
- 176
- Elevation
- 30
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.klaustur.is
- Image
- Kirkjubæjarklaustur Aerial 2023 B.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kirkjubæjarklaustur
- twinned administrative body
- Çeşme
- native label
- Kirkjubæjarklaustur
- time of earliest written record
- 1186-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Location
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- Climate
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thumb|Kirkjubæjarklaustur's basalt Kirkjugólf (Church Floor) Kirkjubæjarklaustur (Icelandic for "church farm cloister", pronounced ; often referred to locally as just Klaustur) is a village in the south of Iceland on the hringvegur (road no. 1 or Ring Road) between Vík í Mýrdal and Höfn. It is part of the municipality of Skaftárhreppur and has about 500 inhabitants. It is surrounded by hills and plateaus to the north. Kirkjubæjarklaustur is roughly east of the capital city of Reykjavik.
==Location== Kirkjubæjarklaustur is located between Vík and Höfn, and it includes a fuel station, a bank, a post office and a supermarket. Nearby tourist attractions include the Laki craters, the Eldgjá and Skaftafell, all in Vatnajökull National Park. An attraction close to the village is Kirkjugólf ("Church floor"), a natural pavement of basalt. These are basalt columns in the earth, the visible tops of which have the appearance of a paved church floor. This lava formation has similar origins to the Giant's Causeway in Ireland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kirkjubæjarklaustur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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