# Snæfellsjökull

- **Country:** Iceland
- **Coordinates:** 64.800000, -23.783333
- **Type:** Stratovolcano
- **Location:** Snæfellsnes peninsula, western Iceland
- **Map Size:** 200
- **Image Map:** {{maplink|plain=yes|frame=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=280|frame-height=350|frame-long=-22.8|frame-lat=64.5|zoom=7|raw=[,{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { "marker-size": "small", "marker-color": "#ff0000", "marker-symbol": "volcano", "title": "Snæfellsjökull" }, "geometry": {"type": "Point", "coordinates":[-23.783333, 64.8]} }]|text=}}
- **Prominence:** >1,200 m
- **Elevation M:** 1446
- **Last Eruption:** 200 CE
- **Label Position:** right
- **Image Map Caption:** Approximate map of central volcanoes and their fissure fields (paler shading) in the Snæfellsnes volcanic belt:Mouse over is enabled on clicking the map which also shows the location of some features (yellow) mentioned in the article text.

The mountain is one of the most famous sites of Iceland, primarily due to the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne, in which the protagonists find the entrance to a passage leading to the center of the Earth on Snæfellsjökull.

![Photo of Snæfellsjökull](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Sn%C3%A6fellsj%C3%B6kull_in_the_Morning_%287622876302%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snæfellsjökull (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)