Öskjuvatn
Sign in to saveÖskjuvatn (, "Askja Lake") is a lake in the Highlands of Iceland. Its surface area is about 11 km2. With a depth of , it is the second-deepest lake in Iceland after Jökulsárlón.
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- Öskjuvatn
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- The ice on Öskjuvatn melting in early 2023
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- Location of Öskjuvatn in Iceland.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- volcanic crater lake
- Part of
- Askja
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Þingeyjarsveit
- Area
- 11
- Elevation
- 1053
- Image
- Askja.jpg
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- Öskjuvatn
- located in protected area
- Vatnajökull National Park
- vertical depth
- 220
- basin country
- Iceland
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Öskjuvatn (, "Askja Lake") is a lake in the Highlands of Iceland. Its surface area is about 11 km2. With a depth of , it is the second-deepest lake in Iceland after Jökulsárlón.
The lake is situated in the crater of the volcano Askja in the northeast of the glacier Vatnajökull. The name Öskjuvatn simply means Askja lake. Like the neighbouring crater Víti, it was created by an enormous volcanic eruption in 1875.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Öskjuvatn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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