Kaldnasi

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Kaldnasi
Grundarfjörður with Kaldnasi and Helgrindur in the background

Grundarfjörður with Kaldnasi and Helgrindur in the background

height 988  m
location Iceland
Mountains Helgrindur
Coordinates 64 ° 53 '22 "  N , 23 ° 20' 31"  W Coordinates: 64 ° 53 '22 "  N , 23 ° 20' 31"  W.
Kaldnasi (Iceland)
Kaldnasi
Type volcano
Last eruption (active)
Normal way from the north side

At 988 m, Kaldnasi is the highest mountain in the volcanic mountain range of Helgrindur and is located on the Snæfellsnes peninsula southwest of Grundarfjörður in Iceland .

Volcanism

The volcanic mountain range is one of the highest and most important mountain ranges on the Snæfellsnes peninsula. The central volcano of the Lýsuskarð volcanic system is also located here .

Weather sheath

The high mountains divide Snæfellsnes together with the other two main mountain ranges into two climatic zones, each of which belongs to Faxaflói Bay in the south and the large Breiðafjörður fjord in the north.

Notorious are the sharp fall winds that sweep down from these mountains in storms from the north or south on the leeward side.

Rockclimbing

Kaldnasi is popular with mountaineers.

You can z. B. from Kalfárvellir on the south side up to him.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur þorleifsson: Íslensk fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík (Mál og Menning) 2004, p. 100f.

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