Hengill
Sign in to saveHengill () is a volcanic table mountain situated in the south-west of Iceland, to the south of Þingvellir.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Hengill
- Mountain.photo
- Þingvellir_Iceland_034.JPG
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Hengill, 2004
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 803
- Mountain.listing
- List of volcanoes in Iceland
- Mountain.location
- Iceland
- Mountain.map
- Iceland
- Mountain.relief
- 1
- Mountain.map_size
- 200
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.type
- Shield volcano, fissure vents
- Mountain.age
- 200,000 years ago
- Mountain.last_eruption
- 150 CE ± 75 years
- Mountain.easiest_route
- Hike
via Wikipedia infobox
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Hengill () is a volcanic table mountain situated in the south-west of Iceland, to the south of Þingvellir.
The volcano is still active, as evidenced by its numerous hot springs and fumaroles, but the last eruption occurred approximately 2,000 years ago, before the settlement of Iceland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hengill” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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