Dynjandi (, also known as Fjallfoss ) is a

waterfall A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in several wa ...

located in

Arnarfjörður Arnarfjörður () is a large fjord in the Westfjords region of Iceland. "Arnar" is the genitive case of "Örn" , the name of the first settler of the fjord. Description The fjord is 30 km long, five to ten km wide, and is oriented NW/SE. I ...

in the

Westfjords The Westfjords or West Fjords ( is, Vestfirðir , ISO 3166-2:IS: IS-4) is a large peninsula in northwestern Iceland and an administrative district, the least populous administrative district. It lies on the Denmark Strait, facing the east coast ...

region of

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

. It is the largest waterfall in the Westfjords and has a total height of . Below it are five other waterfalls: Háifoss, Úðafoss, Göngufoss, Hundafoss and Bæjarfoss. Dynjandi and other waterfalls in Dynjandisá and their surroundings were protected as natural monuments in 1981.

Dynjandisheiði Dynjandisheiði () is a mountain pass in the Westfjords region of Iceland that runs between Arnarfjörður and Barðaströnd. The road over the pass has a maximum elevation of . The road was built over the pass in 1959 and was the first car-access ...

is a mountain pass over the falls that contains the first-built car-accessible road to

Ísafjörður Ísafjörður (pronounced , meaning ''ice fjord'', literally ''fjord of ices'') is a town in the northwest of Iceland. The oldest part of Ísafjörður with the town centre is located on a spit of sand, or ''eyri'', in Skutulsfjörður, a fjord ...

Photos

Dynjandi Iceland.jpg Dynjandi Iceland_2.jpg Río Dynjandisá, Vestfirðir, Islandia, 2014-08-14, DD 161-163 HDR.JPG Cascada Dynjandi, Vestfirðir, Islandia, 2014-08-14, DD 142-144 HDR.JPG Cascada Dynjandi, Vestfirðir, Islandia, 2014-08-14, DD 130-132 HDR.JPG

References

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