Dettifoss - the most powerful waterfall in Europe (8 photos)

Dettifoss ("raging waterfall") is the largest waterfall, not only in Iceland, but also the most powerful in Europe. The average consumption of water here reaches up to 500 cubic meters per second, and they produce the impression he was not far behind Niagara Falls.

The most powerful waterfall in Europe, located in the northeast of Iceland on the river with the unpronounceable name Yёkulsau-au-Fёdlum National Park Yёkulsaurglyuvur.



Dettifoss waterfall width of about 100 meters, height - 44 meters, which is 9 meters less than the Niagara Falls.

The average consumption of water Dettifoss - 200 cubic meters per second, and at times to reach 500.



Name Dettifoss (Dettifoss) means "bubbling waterfall", and this is completely untrue. It is also called "European Niagara».



River, on which there is a waterfall, flooding the ice melting glacier Vantayokull. The color of the water in the waterfall - the brown-brown, which is unusual for Icelandic rivers.



Near the waterfall is beautiful "lake mosquito" Mi'van, a length of about 10 km and a width of 8 km and 34 islands of volcanic origin:



Standing at the waterfall you can feel the tremors underfoot, and the roar of the water may even be stunned for a moment. Not surprisingly, the first Icelandic settlers called it "the king of the waterfalls».