Hecla (Greenland)
Hecla is the traditional English spelling of the Icelandic volcano, Hekla, and may also refer to: Places * Fury and Hecla Strait, Nunavut, Canada * Hecla, Kentucky, USA * Hecla, Missouri, USA * Hecla, Montana, USA * Brooklyn_Bowl#History_and_design, Hecla Iron Works Building, Brooklyn, NY, USA * Hecla, South Dakota, USA * Hecla, Wyoming, USA, a ghost town near Laramie * Hecla and Fury Islands, Nunavut, Canada * Hecla and Griper Bay, Nunavut and Northwest Territories, Canada * Hecla-Grindstone Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada * Hecla (South Uist), a 606 m mountain on the island of South Uist, Scotland Ships * Hecla-class bomb vessel, ''Hecla''-class bomb vessel * Hecla-class survey vessel, ''Hecla''-class survey vessel * HMS Hecla, HMS ''Hecla'', various Other uses * Hecla Mining, Idaho based mining company * Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, Michigan, USA ** Calumet & Hecla Band See also

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Hekla
Hekla (), or Hecla, is a stratovolcano in the south of Iceland with a height of . Hekla is one of Iceland's most active volcanoes; over 20 eruptions have occurred in and around the volcano since 874. During the Middle Ages, the Icelandic Norse called the volcano the "Gateway to Hell". Hekla is part of a volcanic ridge, long. The most active part of this ridge, a fissure about long named , is considered to be within Hekla proper. Hekla looks rather like an overturned boat, with its keel being a series of craters, two of which are generally the most active. The volcano's frequent large eruptions have covered much of Iceland with tephra, and these layers can be used to date eruptions of Iceland's other volcanoes. Approximately 10% of the tephra created in Iceland in the last thousand years has come from Hekla, amounting to 5 km3. Cumulatively, the volcano has produced one of the largest volumes of lava of any in the world in the last millennium, around 8 km3. Etymolo ...
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