Bifröst_(town)

Bifröst (town)

Bifröst (town)

Village in Northwest Constituency, Iceland

For other uses, see Bifrost (disambiguation).

Bifröst (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈpɪvˌrœst]) is a small settlement in western Iceland, in the Mýrasýsla county.

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Town of Bifröst surrounded by the Grábrókarhraun lavafield.

It is located in the Northwest Political constituency and is the site of Bifröst University, a small private campus university.[1] In the town of Bifröst there is a convenience store called Samkaup strax, a coffee house, a kindergarten and a gym among other things.[2]

Grábrókarhraun

Grábrókarfell, seen from Stóra-Grábrók

Bifröst is surrounded by a 3,000-year-old ʻaʻā lava (or apalhraun) field, Grábrókarhraun [ˈkrauːˌprouːkar̥ˌr̥œyːn], which has been overgrown with moss and heather. It is part of the around 90 km long volcanic system of Ljósufjöll. Just behind the university campus are some craters which produced the lava field, the biggest one is called Grábrók (Stóra Grábrók [ˈstouːra ˈkrauːˌprouːk]) and the one beside it Grábrókarfell [ˈkrauːˌprouːkarˌfɛtl̥].[3]

  • Heath and forest land south of Bifröst
  • Panorama of Grábrókarhraun at dawn, November 2007
  • Grábrók and Grábrókarfell

References

  1. [1]
    http://www.bifrost.is/english/ Bifröst University
  2. [2]
    "Háskólinn á Bifröst - Þjónusta í þorpinu". Archived from the original on 2010-01-19. Retrieved 2010-01-07.
  3. [3]
    "Háskólinn á Bifröst - Forsíða". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-01-07.

64.7623°N 21.5547°W / 64.7623; -21.5547

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