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Mt
Hengill is a 803 m high hyaloclastite and diorite mountain (possibly a
canted table mountain) at the roots of the Reykjanes Peninsula in the
southwestern
corner of Iceland. It
is very prominent from the main highway between the capital area and the
Southwestern Lowlands. The
mountain is most likely a part of a central volcano as the widespread
thermal activity suggests. Its
highest point is called Skeggi.
The
rhyolite mountain Sleggja extends to the south from Mt Hengill and the
three valleys to the south are Innstidalur, Middalur and Fremstidalur.
In Valley Innstidalur is a large natural steam
vent and nearby
is a mineral spring. Legend
has it, that outlaws spent some time in the valleys in the past. A cave with proof of human habitation was discovered in a
large hyaloclastite rock just northeast of the steam
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