Hafursey
| Hafursey | ||
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 Mýrdalssandur with Mýrdalsjökull, Hafursey re. |
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| height | 582 m | |
| location | Iceland | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ N , 18 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Type | Inselberg | |
| rock | Palagonite | |
| particularities | was temporarily an island after the Ice Age | |
Hafursey (582 m) is an island mountain in the south of Iceland . It has a length of 4.8 and a width of 3 km.
Surname
The mountain is translated as billy goat island .
location
Hafursey lies in the north of the black plain of the Mýrdalssandur south of a side glacier of the Mýrdalsjökull , which is called Kötlujökull .
shape
The roughly triangular mountain has a few peaks and is also split into two parts by a gorge called Klofgil . Like a large part of the mountain, this extends from the southeast to the northwest. The western part of Hafursey is the highest and is called Skálafjall (582 m), in the north there is an almost equally high peak called Kistufell (525 m).
geology
The Inselberg Hafursey was formed during the Ice Age and is made of palagonite .
It probably does not belong to the Katla , but was fed from its own magma source, whereby one has to imagine its formation in one or more eruptions similar to that of Surtsey , but it is far larger than this real island. In addition, it was not formed in the sea but under an ice age glacier.
After the end of the Ice Age, the mountain was temporarily an island, which you can still tell from its name. However, in this case one can speak of an island of a special kind: The numerous glacier runs of the Katla made it one again and again and also contributed to its erosion . Kötlujökull plays a key role in this, because it is from here that the greatest amount of glacier ice and water pours out, which then with a volume of up to 100,000 or even 200,000 m² / sec. shoots over the sander .
Agricultural benefits
The land is fertile and good grazing land. Therefore the farmers from the now abandoned Hjörleifshöfði farm used the Inselberg as summer pasture for their sheep.
Overnight accommodation for travelers
Since in earlier times the main route to south-east Iceland ran over the Mýrdalssandur at the foot of the mountain, a refuge was built there at the beginning of the 20th century. Previously, travelers had used the Stúka cave on the mountain for the same purpose.
Hiking on Hafursey
You can z. B. go to the Skálafjall by first following the jeep track from the hut about 2.5 km to the west and then climbing over the cut, which in a way represents the extension of the Klofgil to the southeast.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorleifsson: Íslensk fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík (Mál og Menning) 2004, p. 82
- ^ HU Schmid: Dictionary Icelandic-German. Hamburg (Buske) 2002, p. 54 and 101
- ↑ a b Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorleifsson: Íslensk fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík (Mál og Menning) 2004, p. 83
- ↑ cf. Íslandshandbókin. Náttúra, saga og sérkenni. 2. bindi. Edited by T. Einarsson, H. Magnússon. Reykjavík (Örn og Örlygur) 1989, p. 697
- ^ Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorleifsson: Íslensk fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík (Mál og Menning) 2004, p. 82 f.
- ↑ a b Íslandshandbókin. Náttúra, saga og sérkenni. 2. bindi. Edited by T. Einarsson, H. Magnússon. Reykjavík (Örn og Örlygur) 1989, p. 697