Esja
Sign in to saveEsja (; often Esjan , with the feminine definite article) is a mountain situated in the south-west of Iceland, about ten kilometres north of Iceland's capital city Reykjavík.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Esja
- Mountain.photo
- Esja (2571116699).jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- The mountain range Esja
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 914
- Mountain.location
- 10 km north of Reykjavík, Iceland
- Mountain.map
- Iceland
- Mountain.relief
- 1
- Mountain.map_size
- 200
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.easiest_route
- hiking
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Reykjavík
- Elevation
- 914
- Material used
- volcanic rock
- Image
- Esja (2571116699).jpg
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- Commons category
- Esjan
- time period
- Pleistocene
- native label
- Esja
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Formation
- Physical features
- Hiking and climbing
- References
Esja (; often Esjan , with the feminine definite article) is a mountain situated in the south-west of Iceland, about ten kilometres north of Iceland's capital city Reykjavík.
Esja is not a single mountain, but a volcanic mountain range, made from basalt and tuff. thumb|Esja as seen from Perlan thumb|Steinn on Esja
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Esja” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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