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Bláfjöll
Bláfjöll (, "blue mountains") are a small mountain range in the southwest of Iceland on Reykjanes peninsula at about 30 km from Reykjavík. They form sort of a double mountain massif to the west and in the east of JósepsdalurÞór Vigfússon: Í Árnesþingi vestanverðu. Ferðafélag Íslands Árbók 2003. Reykjavík 2003, p.83 on Hellisheiði.Íslandshandbókin. Náttúra, saga og sérkenni. Reykjavík 1989, p. 780 Geography The mountain massif has a length of about 9 km. The western part includes Vífilsfell as well as , the eastern one reaches from to . The highest mountain is ''Hákollur'' (685 m). Geology The Bláfjöll are Pleistocene subglacial volcanoes and part of the Brennisteinsfjöll volcanic system. Winter sports The area is the most popular ski resort for the inhabitants of Iceland's Höfuðborgarsvæði, Capital City Area. The winter sports area is situated at elevations between 460 and 700 m.https://www.skiresort.info/ski-resort/blafjoell/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bláfjöll From Plane
Bláfjöll (, "blue mountains") are a small mountain range in the southwest of Iceland on Reykjanes peninsula at about 30 km from Reykjavík. They form sort of a double mountain massif to the west and in the east of JósepsdalurÞór Vigfússon: Í Árnesþingi vestanverðu. Ferðafélag Íslands Árbók 2003. Reykjavík 2003, p.83 on Hellisheiði.Íslandshandbókin. Náttúra, saga og sérkenni. Reykjavík 1989, p. 780 Geography The mountain massif has a length of about 9 km. The western part includes Vífilsfell as well as , the eastern one reaches from to . The highest mountain is ''Hákollur'' (685 m). Geology The Bláfjöll are Pleistocene subglacial volcanoes and part of the Brennisteinsfjöll volcanic system. Winter sports The area is the most popular ski resort for the inhabitants of Iceland's Höfuðborgarsvæði, Capital City Area. The winter sports area is situated at elevations between 460 and 700 m.https://www.skiresort.info/ski-resort/blafjoell/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldborg í Bláfjöllum
The volcanic cone of Eldborg í Bláfjöllum () is to be found at about 2 km from the skiing area in Bláfjöll, i.e. at about 25 km from Reykjavík, in Iceland.Ísland Vegaatlas. Reykjavík 2006, p.1 Scoria cones Eldborg í Bláfjöllum is a scoria cone, part of a group of three such small volcanoes. The crater group as well as the impressive lava channels and tubes nearby are products of eruptions within the Brennisteinsfjöll volcanic system around the year 1000.Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorleifsson: Íslensk Fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík 2004, p. 260 Accessibility Route 407 (Iceland), Route 407 to the skiing area in Bláfjöll passes by the crater. Some marked hiking trails connect the cone group of Eldborgir with the bigger mountains in the vicinity and other trails, e.g. the Reykjavegur Hiking Trail. In the wintertime, cross country skiing is possible on cross-country ski-tracks in the area. Natural monument Eldborg and its surroundi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vífilsfell
Vífilsfell () is a hyaloclastite ridge in southwestern Iceland (Weichselian). It is 655 m high and located west of Jósepsdalur valley on the volcanic plateau of Hellisheiði. It forms the northernmost offset of the Bláfjöll mountain massif and is situated on top of the fissure volcanism, fissure system of Brennisteinsfjöll. Name The name comes from one of the freed slaves of Iceland's first settler Ingólfur Arnarson. The man, called ''Vífill'', is said to have had his own farm at Vífilsstaðir, now in the vicinity of the city of Hafnarfjörður. From there – according to the Landnámabók – he went daily up to the top of Vífilsfell, some 20 km away, to look after the weather.Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorleifsson: Íslensk Fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík 2004, p.300Snæbjörn Guðmundsson, Vegvísir um Jardfræði Íslands. Reykjavík 2015, p.50 When the weather seemed promising, he went fishing from the tip of the Seltjarnarnes peninsula n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brennisteinsfjöll
Brennisteinsfjöll (, "Sulfur mountains" Brennisteinsfjöll. Detailed description. In: Catalogue of Icelandic Volcanoes. Retrieved 27 July 2020) is a minor Volcanism of Iceland, volcanic system, with crater rows and small es on the in southwest |
Jósepsdalur
Jósepsdalur (), also Josefsdalur , is a small valley, about 2 km long in southwestern direction, and to the east of the volcano Vífilsfell up on Hellisheiði at a distance of about 25 km from Reykjavík within Selvogshreppur municipality.Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, Pétur Þorleifsson: Íslensk Fjöll. Gönguleiðir á 151 tind. Reykjavík 2004, p. 300 The Bláfjöll mountains surround the U-shaped valley.Þór Vigfússon: Í Árnesþingi vestanverðu. Ferðafélag Íslands Árbók 2003. Reykjavík 2003, p. 83 The valley is situated next to an old trail over the pass ''Ölfusskarð'' from Ölfus, the region in the south of Iceland around Hveragerði, to Reykjavík.Íslandshandbókin. Náttúra, saga og sérkenni. Reykjavík 1989, v.2, p.806 Folk tales Acc. to an old folk tale, a troll woman shall have lived in a cave in Jósepsdalur. Another folk tale explains the name of the valley: A man named Jósep lived in this valley once. He had a bad reputation for swearing and blasphemy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heiðin Há
Heiðin há () is a shield volcano up on Hellisheiði at about 35 km to the south of Reykjavík in Iceland. The mountain has a height of 626 m.Björn Hróarsson: Hellahandbókin. Leiðsögn um 77 íslenska hraunhella. Reykjavík 2008, p. 103 Shield volcano The volcano dates from the Mid-Holocene, is - following B. Hróarsson - about 6,000 years old, slightly younger than the Selvogsheiði, another shield volcano on Reykjanes peninsula, whereas Sinton defines its age as “finiglacial”, i.e., from the beginning of Holocene. It covers about 160km2, and its volume is about 10km3. The volcano is part of the Brennisteinsfjöll volcanic system. The top crater is located south of Bláfjöll. It has a diameter of ca. 400m, but is mostly filled by lava up to the rim. The lava flows from Heiðin há went in all directions on Hellisheiði: They covered the highland up to the Bláfjöll and up to the tuya Geitafell in eastern direction, and enclosed the older shield volcano ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reykjanes Volcanic Belt
The Reykjanes Peninsula ( is, Reykjanesskagi ) in southwest Iceland is the continuation of the mostly submarine Reykjanes Ridge, a part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, on land and reaching from Esja in the north and Hengill in the east to Reykjanestá in the west.G.B.M. Pedersen, P. Grosse: ''Morphometry of subaerial shield volcanoes and glaciovolcanoes from Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland: Effects of eruption environment. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 282'', (2014), 115-133. Retrieved 21 August 2020. Suðurnes (transl. |
Reykjavík
Reykjavík ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói bay. Its latitude is 64°08' N, making it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. With a population of around 131,136 (and 233,034 in the Capital Region), it is the centre of Iceland's cultural, economic, and governmental activity, and is a popular tourist destination. Reykjavík is believed to be the location of the first permanent settlement in Iceland, which, according to Landnámabók, was established by Ingólfr Arnarson in 874 CE. Until the 18th century, there was no urban development in the city location. The city was officially founded in 1786 as a trading town and grew steadily over the following decades, as it transformed into a regional and later national centre of commerce, population, and governmental activities. It is among the cleanest, greenest, and safest cities in the world. History According to lege ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Country Skiing
Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreational activity; however, some still use it as a means of transportation. Variants of cross-country skiing are adapted to a range of terrain which spans unimproved, sometimes mountainous terrain to groomed courses that are specifically designed for the sport. Modern cross-country skiing is similar to the original form of skiing, from which all skiing disciplines evolved, including alpine skiing, ski jumping and Telemark skiing. Skiers propel themselves either by striding forward (classic style) or side-to-side in a skating motion (skate skiing), aided by arms pushing on ski poles against the snow. It is practised in regions with snow-covered landscapes, including Europe, Canada, Russia, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Competitiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountains Of Iceland
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres (1,000 feet) above the surrounding land. A few mountains are Monadnock, isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges. Mountain formation, Mountains are formed through Tectonic plate, tectonic forces, erosion, or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years. Once mountain building ceases, mountains are slowly leveled through the action of weathering, through Slump (geology), slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through erosion by rivers and glaciers. High elevations on mountains produce Alpine climate, colder climates than at sea level at similar latitude. These colder climates strongly affect the Montane ecosystems, ecosys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport In Iceland
Sports in Iceland are very popular. Popular sports include association football, football, handball, sport of athletics, athletics, basketball, :Chess in Iceland, chess, golf, volleyball, tennis, skiing, snowboarding, ice hockey, swimming (sport), swimming, rock climbing and mountain climbing; horseback riding on Icelandic horses is also popular and also archery. In some of those sports, namely football, handball, and basketball, Iceland is extremely successful, considering its population. It manages to compete at comparable level with countries that have 10-200 times its population. Iceland's most famous athlete comes from the world of football. Eiður Guðjohnsen has played in England's Premier League for Chelsea F.C. winning the league title and the Community Shield twice, as well as the League Cup once. He also played in La Liga for FC Barcelona, where he was part of the team that won the Treble (association football), Treble of the league, Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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