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テ《byrgi
テ《byrgi () is a Glacial landform, glacial canyon and forest in the north of Iceland, located approximately east of Hテコsavテュk on the Diamond Circle road. The horseshoe-shaped depression is part of the Vatnajテカkull National Park and measures approximately 3.5 km in length and over 1 km wide. For more than half of its length, the canyon is divided through the middle by a distinctive rock formation 25 meters high called ''Eyjan'' (, "the Island"), from which a vast landscape is seen. The canyon's steep sides are formed by cliffs up to in height. Within the canyon is a woodland of birch and willow. Between 1947 and 1977, a number of foreign tree species were introduced, including spruce, larch and pine. The small lake ''Botnstjテカrn'' is home to a variety of waterfowl species. テ《byrgi was most likely formed by Jテカkulhlaup, catastrophic glacial flooding of the river Jテカkulsテ。 テ。 Fjテカllum after the Last Glacial Period, last ice age, first 8窶10,000 years ago, and then ...
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Diamond Circle
The Diamond Circle ( ) is a popular tourist route around Hテコsavテュk and Mテスvatn, Lake Mテスvatn in North Iceland. The route is fully Paved (road), paved and easily accessible during the summer. The southern section of the route follows Route 1 (Iceland), Route 1 (Ring road) from Akureyri, before turning north along Route 862, the new road to Dettifoss. Then it joins Route 85 (Iceland), Route 85 at テ《byrgi Canyon and follows the coast through Hテコsavテュk and eventually re-joining Route 1. The four primary stops on the route are the town of Hテコsavテュk, テ《byrgi, テ《byrgi Canyon, Lake Mテスvatn and Dettifoss, Dettifoss Waterfall, the most powerful waterfall in Europe. Other stops include Vatnajテカkull National Park, Goテーafoss, Goテーafoss Waterfall, Dimmuborgir, Dimmuborgir (Dark Castles), Eider Falls, The Whispering Cliffs and Laugar. The Diamond Circle covers an area rich in volcanic and Geothermal activity, geothermal features. The completion of the 55-km new paved road to Dettifoss, Rout ...
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Vatnajテカkull National Park
Vatnajテカkull National Park ( ) is one of three national parks in Iceland, and is the largest one. It encompasses all of Vatnajテカkull glacier and extensive surrounding areas. These include the national parks previously existing at Skaftafell in the southwest and Jテカkulsテ。rgljテコfur in the north. The unique qualities of Vatnajテカkull National Park are primarily its great variety of landscape features, created by the combined forces of rivers, glacial ice, and volcanic and geothermal activity. The park spans 14% of the country's area and is Europe's second largest national park in terms of area after Yugyd Va in the Ural Mountains of Russia. The glacier itself is the largest in Europe at . In 2019 the park was enlarged to the north. On 5 July 2019 Vatnajテカkull National Park was inscribed as a World Heritage Site. History Vatnajテカkull National Park was established on 7 June 2008. When established, the park covered an area of 12,000 km2, but with later additions of Lakagテュga ...
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Sleipnir
In Norse mythology, Sleipnir (Old Norse: "slippy"Orchard (1997:151). or "the slipper"Kermode (1904:6).) is an eight-legged horse ridden by Odin. Sleipnir is attested in the ''Poetic Edda'', compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the ''Prose Edda'', written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, Sleipnir is Odin's steed, is the child of Loki and Svaテーilfari, is described as the best of all horses, and is sometimes ridden to the location of Hel. The ''Prose Edda'' contains extended information regarding the circumstances of Sleipnir's birth, and details that he is grey in color. Sleipnir is also mentioned in a riddle found in the 13th-century legendary saga '' Hervarar saga ok Heiテーreks'', in the 13th-century legendary saga ''Vテカlsunga saga'' as the ancestor of the horse Grani, and book I of '' Gesta Danorum'', written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus, contains an episode considered by many scholars to involve Sleipnir. Slei ...
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Jテカkulsテ。 テ。 Fjテカllum
Jテカkulsテ。 テ。 Fjテカllum (; "glacial river in the mountains") is the second longest river in Iceland (206 km). Its Source (river or stream), source is the Vatnajテカkull glacier. It flows into the Greenland Sea. Jテカkulsテ。 テ。 Fjテカllum streams over the waterfalls Selfoss (waterfall), Selfoss, Dettifoss, Hafragilsfoss, and , the second of which is the most powerful waterfall in Europe. The source of the river is in the Vatnajテカkull National Park, one of three national parks in Iceland. The river is located in the northeast of Iceland and forms the eastern boundary of テ電テ。テーahraun, an extensive lava field. Its drainage basin is the largest in Iceland at 7,380 square kilometers. Glacial flooding Dettifoss drops into the Jテカkulsテ。rgljテコfur National Park, Jテカkulsテ。rgljテコfur canyon, a feature which, along with the テ《byrgi gorge, appears to have been formed by catastrophic glacial flooding caused by volcanic activity. The volcano in question was possibly Bテ。rテーarbunga, which has been ...
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Hテコsavテュk
Hテコsavテュk () is a town in Norテーurテセing municipality on the northeast coast of Iceland on the shores of Skjテ。lfandi bay with 2,485 inhabitants. The most famous landmark of the town is the wooden church Hテコsavテュkurkirkja, built in 1907. Hテコsavテュk is served by Hテコsavテュk Airport. Overview Here income is derived from tourism and fishing, as well as from retail and small industries. Until 2004, Hテコsavテュk was the export harbour for silica that was extracted from nearby lake Mテスvatn. According to the '' Landnテ。mabテウk'' ("Book of Settlement"), Hテコsavテュk was the first place in Iceland to be settled in by a Norseman. The Swedish Viking Garテーar Svavarsson stayed there for one winter around 870 A.D. When he left the island in spring of 870, after a winter's stay, he left behind a man named Nテ。ttfari and two slaves, a man and a woman, and they established a farm there. The name of the town means "bay of houses", probably referring to Garテーar's homestead, which was probably the only ...
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Larch
Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to the cooler regions of the northern hemisphere, where they are found in lowland forests in the high latitudes, and high in mountains further south. Larches are among the dominant plants in the boreal forests of Siberia and Canada. Although they are conifers, larches are deciduous trees that lose their needles in the autumn. Description and distribution The tallest species, '' Larix occidentalis'', can reach . Larch tree crowns are sparse, with the major branches horizontal; the second and third order branchlets are also ツア horizontal in some species (e.g. '' L. gmelinii'', '' L. kaempferi''), or characteristically pendulous in some other species (e.g. '' L. decidua'', '' L. griffithii''). Larch shoots are dimorphic, with leaves borne singly on long shoots typically long and bearing several buds, and in dense clusters of 20窶50 need ...
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Canyons And Gorges Of Iceland
A canyon (; archaic British English spelling: ''caテアon''), gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tendency to cut through underlying surfaces, eventually wearing away rock layers as sediments are removed downstream. A river bed will gradually reach a baseline elevation, which is the same elevation as the body of water into which the river drains. The processes of weathering and erosion will form canyons when the river's headwaters and estuary are at significantly different elevations, particularly through regions where softer rock layers are intermingled with harder layers more resistant to weathering. A canyon may also refer to a rift between two mountain peaks, such as those in ranges including the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, the Himalayas or the Andes. Usually, a river or stream carves out such splits between mountains. Examples of mountain-type ...
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