Þjófafoss
Sign in to saveÞjófafoss (, "thieves' waterfall"; also Thjofafoss) is located on the river Þjórsá on the east side of the Merkurhraun lava fields in the south of Iceland, at the southwest tip of the hill Búrfell. A viewing point for the waterfall can be accessed by a gravel track that leads about northwest from Route 26 or by a track that leads south from Route 32 past the hydroelectric power station Búrfellsstöð and Hjálparfoss.
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- Waterfall.name
- Þjófafoss
- Waterfall.image
- thjofafoss_burfell_2.jpg
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- Þjófafoss and Búrfell, as seen from the Merkurhraun lava fields
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- Iceland
- Waterfall.location
- South of Iceland
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- waterfall
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- Þjórsá
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Skeiða- og Gnúpverjahreppur
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- Thjofafoss.jpg
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Þjófafoss (, "thieves' waterfall"; also Thjofafoss) is located on the river Þjórsá on the east side of the Merkurhraun lava fields in the south of Iceland, at the southwest tip of the hill Búrfell. A viewing point for the waterfall can be accessed by a gravel track that leads about northwest from Route 26 or by a track that leads south from Route 32 past the hydroelectric power station Búrfellsstöð and Hjálparfoss.
== Gallery == thumb|center|The view east from Merkurhraun showing Þjófafoss and Þjórsá.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Þjófafoss” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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