Vífilsfell
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thumb|View on Sandskeið airfield and Vífilsfell from the Hringvegur thumb|Quarries at Vífilsfell in 2019 thumb|Winterly road conditions on the Hringvegur near Vífilsfell thumb|Bláfjöll with Vífilsfell to the left, seen from lake [[Rauðavatn in the outskirts of Reykjavík]] Vífilsfell () is a hyaloclastite ridge in southwestern Iceland (Weichselian). It is 655 m high and located west of Jósepsdalur valley on the volcanic plateau of Hellisheiði. It forms the northernmost offset of the Bláfjöll mountain massif and is situated on top of the fissure system of Brennisteinsfjöll.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Vífilsfell
- Mountain.photo
- 8.2 Vífilsfell.JPG
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Vífilsfell, seen from the parking lot at Litla Kaffistofan in 2004, in between the lava field Svínahraun
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 655
- Mountain.elevation_ref
- (Íslandshandbókin. Náttúra, saga og sérkenni. Reykjavík 1989, p. 834)
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 400-450
- Mountain.prominence_ref
- (Snæbjörn Guðmundsson, Vegvísir um Jardfræði Íslands. Reykjavík 2015, p.50)
- Mountain.translation
- Mountain of Vífill
- Mountain.language
- Icelandic
- Mountain.location
- Iceland
- Mountain.range
- Bláfjöll
- Mountain.map
- Iceland
- Mountain.relief
- 1
- Mountain.map_size
- 200
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.type
- Subglacial mound
- Mountain.age
- Pleistocene (Weichselian)
- Mountain.last_eruption
- Pleistocene (Weichselian)
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Name
- Geography
- Geology
- Volcano Vífilsfell
- Volcanic edifices in the vicinity
- Holocene volcanism and connection to the history of Iceland
- Quarries
- Roads and airfield
- References
thumb|View on Sandskeið airfield and Vífilsfell from the Hringvegur thumb|Quarries at Vífilsfell in 2019 thumb|Winterly road conditions on the Hringvegur near Vífilsfell thumb|Bláfjöll with Vífilsfell to the left, seen from lake [[Rauðavatn in the outskirts of Reykjavík]] Vífilsfell () is a hyaloclastite ridge in southwestern Iceland (Weichselian). It is 655 m high and located west of Jósepsdalur valley on the volcanic plateau of Hellisheiði. It forms the northernmost offset of the Bláfjöll mountain massif and is situated on top of the fissure system of Brennisteinsfjöll.
==Name== The name comes from one of the freed slaves of Iceland's first settler Ingólfur Arnarson. The man, called Vífill, is said to have had his own farm at Vífilsstaðir, now in the vicinity of the city of Hafnarfjörður. From there – according to the Landnámabók – he went daily up to the top of Vífilsfell, some 20 km away, to look after the weather. When the weather seemed promising, he went fishing from the tip of the Seltjarnarnes peninsula near Grótta.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vífilsfell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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