Deildartunguhver () is a

hot spring A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a Spring (hydrology), spring produced by the emergence of Geothermal activity, geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow ...

in Reykholtsdalur,

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

. It is characterized by a very high flow rate for a hot spring (180 liters/second) and water emerges at . It is the highest-flow hot spring in Europe. Some of the water is used for heating; it is piped away to Borgarnes and away to Akranes. A

fern The ferns (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) are a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissue ...

called '' Struthiopteris fallax'', grows in Deildartunguhver. This fern is the only endemic fern in Iceland, and it does not grow anywhere else in the world.

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Icelandic website describing Deildartunguhver
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061024223633/http://www.husafell.is/ensku_sidurnar/e_nagrenni/e_deildartunguhver/e_deildartunguhver.htm , date=2006-10-24 Hot springs of Iceland Borgarbyggð