Kirkjufell
Sign in to saveKirkjufell (Icelandic: , "Church Mountain") is a 463 m high hill on the north coast of Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninsula, near the town of Grundarfjörður. It is claimed to be the most photographed mountain in the country. Kirkjufell was one of the filming locations for Game of Thrones season 6 and 7, featuring as the "arrowhead mountain" that the Hound and the company north of the Wall see when capturing a wight.
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- Mountain.name
- Kirkjufell
- Mountain.photo
- Kirkjufell in Iceland.jpg
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 463
- Mountain.location
- Snæfellsnes, Iceland
- Mountain.type
- Nunatak
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- Instance of
- mountain
- Part of
- Snæfellsnes
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Grundarfjarðarbær
- Elevation
- 463
- Image
- Kirkjufell, Iceland (Unsplash LoKG7kKx7Zc).jpg
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Kirkjufell (Icelandic: , "Church Mountain") is a 463 m high hill on the north coast of Iceland's Snæfellsnes peninsula, near the town of Grundarfjörður. It is claimed to be the most photographed mountain in the country. Kirkjufell was one of the filming locations for Game of Thrones season 6 and 7, featuring as the "arrowhead mountain" that the Hound and the company north of the Wall see when capturing a wight.
== Geography == Kirkjufell contains volcanic rock but is not itself a volcano. It is a nunatak, a mountain that protruded above the glaciers surrounding it during the Ice Age, and before that was part of what was once the area's strata. This stratum is composed of alternating layers of Pleistocene lava and sandstone, with tuff at its summit.
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