Hvítserkur (mountain)
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| height | 774 m | |
| location | Austurland , Iceland | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 26 '7 " N , 13 ° 45' 5" W | |
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The Hvítserkur is a 774 m high mountain in the municipality Borgarfjörður in northeast Iceland .
location
The Hvítserkur is located northwest of Húsavík and southwest of Breiðavík . The valley Gunnhildardalur connects to the southeast. To the east lies the Leirfjall mountain , to the north the lakes Stóra-Gæsavatn and Minna-Gæsavatn .
The mountain lies on the F946 slope to Loðmundarfjörður .
Surname
In Old Icelandic serkur meant long dress , so the name means long white dress overall .
In Iceland, a waterfall in Borgarfjörður on Lake Skorradalsvatn and a volcanic vent north of the Hóp lagoon in Húnafjörður also bear the same name .
geology
These are the remains of a central volcano many million years old . This explains the high proportion of rhyolite rock .
The Hvítserkur consists largely of light layers of ignimbrite . The side facing Húsavík is traversed by dark intrusions of basalt .
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorsteinsson: Íslensk fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík (Mál og Menning) 2004, p. 136
- ↑ cf. Ari Trausti, ibid., S. 137
- ↑ heimur.is: Austurland ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF; 5.8 MB)
