🏞️ Surtsey

Iceland · Europe · 63.30°N, 20.60°W

Quick facts

Country	Iceland
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	63.30°N, 20.60°W · view on map
Distance to the equator	7,047 km north of it
Solar time	UTC-1:15 — read from longitude, so it is the sky's clock rather than the government's
Sun today (UTC)	Rises 09:17, sets 16:55 — 7 h 37 min of daylight

Surtsey is located in Iceland, in Europe.

Closest protected areas

Flói Nature Reserve — 72 km away
Eldborg í Bláfjöllum — 92 km away
Heiðmörk — 102 km away
Vatnsmýrin Nature Reserve — 114 km away
Grótta — 118 km away

Straight-line distances on a sphere, computed from the coordinates. A road would be longer.

More protected areas in Iceland

Askja · Dverghamrar · Eldborg í Bláfjöllum · Eldey · Flói Nature Reserve · Grótta · Heiðmörk · Helgustaðir mine · Hornstrandir · Lónsöræfi.

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

Protected Areas — tukuk.org/protected-areas

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