I'm not sure that this is the right article title for an article about the current eruption. The eruption is near Fagradalsfjall mountain, and Icelandic Wikipedia therefore has an article is:Eldgosið við Fagradalsfjall 2021 about the eruption (translated "Eruption at Fagradalsfjall 2021"). The eruption itself, however, is in a valley called Geldingadalur (singular) or Geldingadalir (plural); it's not Fagradalsfjall itself which is erupting. IMHO there should be two articles; Fagradalsfjall should be about the (still-existing, and currently not erupting) mountain (as in Icelandic Wikipedia: is:Fagradalsfjall (Reykjanesskagi)) and there should be something like "Eruption near Fagradalsfjall" or, as I titled the article in German Wikipedia, "Eruption in the Krýsuvík volcanic system". Gestumblindi (talk) 16:07, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
The eruptive vent can't have the name "...gos", as "gos" in Icelandic means "eruption" (and also "limonade" by the way - source of many Icelandic jokes). The Icelandic word "Geldingadalsgos", just means "the eruption in / of the valleys Geldingadalir".Hornstrandir1 (talk) 15:34, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
@Ontist: where exactly do you have the coordinates from? The current coordinates point to the area of the eruptions, which is in a valley (Geldingadal) and not on a summit. If the summit is really at 385 m a.s.l., it must be somewhere around (or identical with?) Langhóll, which is further north (391 m a.s.l., according to open street map). Note that Langhóll is not mentioned anywhere on is.wikipedia.org at all, which puzzles me. --Kuhni74 (talk) 13:58, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
Does anybody have a clue, which road and which mountains are displayed on File:The Road to Grindavik (3022612701).jpg? The photograph was taken at 7 a.m., so it must be from the north to the south as the sun is at the left. If have not found any suitable road sections so far that lead to Grindavík or come from Grindavík. --Kuhni74 (talk) 12:02, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
@Hornstrandir1: Don't know if this is off-topic or classifies as WP:NOR: Possibly due to the unsatisfactory way of tagging mountain massivs and valleys in Open Street Map (but probably also other reasons), somebody called the lava field Fagradalshraun a few weeks ago. In my opinion, this is not appropriate, since the valley "Fagridalur" is on the other (northwestern) side of Fagradalsfjall's highest peak "Langhóll", according to the atlas. This is an obvious example of how unsatisfactory maps form published reality (similar to the initial mismatch "Geldingadalir" vs. "Fagradalsfjall") when journalists don't try to understand what native place names may mean. Guess that this fight is lost, but is there a way how such obviously inappropriate terms can be avoided in the future? I have been discussing this on OSM, too, but without success. People there think that fitting map items into the OSM logic systematically is more important than displaying maps to the public usefully... --Kuhni74 (talk) 09:54, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
Seems like Fagradalsfjall is used to refer to a few things – a mountain or a plateau, a volcano, a volcanic system or the area covered by the system. At the moment the first paragraph does not explain it properly, and is actually confusing (is the shield volcano referring to this eruption?). The article needs a proper definition (or definitions if there are more than one) with proper sources of what it is. Might also need to consider splitting the article into the place and the eruption event. Hzh (talk) 23:10, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
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