⛰️ Stóra-Björnsfell

Iceland · Europe · 989 m · 64.50°N, 20.71°W

Stóra-Björnsfell is an elongated medium-sized tuya located in Iceland. It contains pillow lava, hyaloclastite and sheet lava. The volcano formed when a subglacial eruption occurred beneath an ice sheet during the last ice age. Stóra-Björnsfell's pillow lava appears originally to have erupted from a fissure.

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Quick facts

Country	Iceland
Continent / region	Europe
Elevation	989 m above sea level
Coordinates (approx.)	64.50°N, 20.71°W · view on map

Stóra-Björnsfell rises to 989 m in Iceland, in Europe. The full story of this mountain is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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Elevation from Wikidata. Coordinates approximate summit. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.