Breiðabunga
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 On one of the valley glaciers of the Breiðabunga, in the background on the far right the rock needle of Vestrahorn near Höfn |
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| height | 1057 m | |
| location | Iceland | |
| Mountains | Vatnajokull | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ N , 16 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Type | Subglacial volcano | |
| Last eruption | Pleistocene | |
| particularities | is largely under the Vatnajökull | |
 Breiðabunga (left in the background, seen from the Almannaskarð pass near Höfn) |
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 Southern foothills of the Breiðabunga massif near Kálfafellsstaður |
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The Breiðabunga is a predominantly glacier-covered volcano , which is located in the south of the large glacier shield Vatnajökull in Iceland .
The glacier mountain is located about 25 km southwest of the town of Höfn í Hornarfirði in the Austur-Skaftafellssýsla district . The volcano belongs to the independent dormant volcanic zone Öræfajökull - Snæfell .
The mountain Heinabergsfjöll (highest point Ófærumúli , 1057 m ) belongs to the mountain range . The more important valley glaciers that reach down into the plain from east to west are Fláajökull , Heinabergsjökull and Skálafellsjökull , on which the Jöklasel glacier hut is located (above Smýrlabjörg ).
At the Breiðabunga no eruptions can be proven in historical times. It is probably extinguished.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Norvol Lokaprogram, IAVCEI. A George Walker Symposium , Reykholt, Borgarfjörður, 2006, p. 47 - ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed January 24, 2011
- ↑ Kortabók. Ísland. Reykjavík, Mál og Menning, 2005, p. 37
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. HELGI BJÖRNSSON and PÁLL EINARSSON Science Institute, University of Iceland: Volcanoes beneath Vatnajökull, Iceland: Evidence from Radio Echo-Sounding, Earthquakes and Jökulhlaups. Jökull, 40, 147-168, 1991, accessed February 25, 2010
