- Hekla is an elongated central volcano in the south of Iceland, scaling 1491 m. (4,892 ft.) Hekla is part of a volcanic ridge that stretches 40 km.
- Hekla İzlanda'nın en aktif volkanlarından biridir. 874 yılından bu yana 20 patlama meydana gelmiştir. Avrupalılar bu yanardağı "Geçiş" olarak nitelendirirlerdi.
- Mount Hekla has a reputation, but it’s certainly not one that precedes itself. In fact, of all the Icelandic sleeping giants, this is one that is often forgotten.
- Below are also two maps showing Hekla's location and lava flows created during some of Hekla's eruptions (figures 2 and 3).
- 2 References. Toggle the table of contents. Hekla 3 eruption. ... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Severe eruption of Hekla circa 1000 BC.
- Eruptions in Hekla are extremely varied and difficult to predict. Some are very short (a week to ten days) whereas others can stretch into months and years...
- In English, Hekla translates as ‘cloak’ and people speculate that the name derives from the near-constant presence of clouds around the volcano.
- When Hekla errupts, the fissure opens to its full length and releases magma from a magma chamber located beneath Hekla at 4 km (estimate).
- İzlanda'nın ana sembollerinden biri Hekla yanardağıdır. Yüksekliği 1.488 metredir. ... Hekla, İzlandaca'dan 'kısa boyun ceketi ile' çevrildi.
- Hekla, nicknamed ‘the Gateway to Hell’ in the Middle Ages, is one of Iceland’s most explosive, unpredictable and powerful volcanoes.
