Tindfjallajökull
Sign in to saveTindfjallajökull (, alternatively Tindafjallajökull) is a glacier in the south of Iceland whose name is also given to the underlying stratovolcano. Tindfjöll (, "peak mountains") is a ridge that extends to the south of the glacier and is an alternative name for the volcano. The name of the glacier in Icelandic means "Tindfjöll glacier".
Key facts
- Glacier.location
- Iceland
- Mountain.name
- Tindfjallajökull
- Mountain.photo
- Tindfjallajökull from aeroplane.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Tindfjallajökull
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 1462
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 1200
- Mountain.location
- Iceland
- Mountain.range
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Mountain.type
- Stratovolcano
- Mountain.last_eruption
- Possibly Holocene
- Mountain.mapframe
- no
- Mountain.map_image_caption
- Geological features near the Tindfjallajökull volcanic system (red outline).
- Glacier.name
- Tindfjallajökull
- Glacier.type
- Glacier
- Glacier.area
- .
- Glacier.status
- Retreating
- Glacier.mapframe
- no
- Glacier.map_caption
- Map of Tindfjallajökull glacier (light grey shading, white outline), with western river drainage labelled.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- volcano
- Part of
- Tindfjöll
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Southern Region
- Area
- 19
- Elevation
- 1462
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Tindfjallajökull from aeroplane.jpg
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- Tindfjallajökull
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- Tindfjallajökull
- mountain range
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- described at URL
- icelandicvolcanoes.is//?volcano=TIN
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Tindfjallajökull (, alternatively Tindafjallajökull) is a glacier in the south of Iceland whose name is also given to the underlying stratovolcano. Tindfjöll (, "peak mountains") is a ridge that extends to the south of the glacier and is an alternative name for the volcano. The name of the glacier in Icelandic means "Tindfjöll glacier".
== Geography == Its highest peak is Ýmir at , which takes its name from the giant Ýmir of Norse mythology. The peak Ýma is about to its east. The Thórólfsfell (Þórólfsfel) tuya at is on the southern flanks of Tindfjallajökull, about south of the glacier. Its eastern slopes abut the Þórsmörk ignimbrite. The western flank has a prominence near Austurdalur and the eastern flank that of Vestriöxl at . About to the north of Ýma is the peak of Sindri at . Ásgrindur at is a similar distance north of Ýmir.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tindfjallajökull” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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