Landscapes & nature

Mýrdalssandur

desert plain in Iceland

Iceland · 63.4683, -18.6300

Mýrdalssandur is recorded as a filming location for 1 production.

“In Iceland, the crew shot in Reynisfjara, and around the mountains of Hjörleifshöfði and Hafursey at Mýrdalssandur, which were used to represent the Erso homestead on Lah'mu and the Imperial research facility on Eadu respectively.”

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Movies filmed at Mýrdalssandur

• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016

Named here by Mýrdalssandur’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Mýrdalssandur, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016

  “The area was used as a filming location for the Star Wars spinoff film Rogue One, representing the planet Lah'mu in the opening scenes of the film.” Wikipedia

Filming locations nearby

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  Landscapes & nature

  Hjörleifshöfði

  Iceland·9 km south-west

  mountain in Iceland

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  Landscapes & nature

  Hafursey

  Iceland·10 km north-west

  an inselberg in southern Iceland

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  Towns & cities

  Vík í Mýrdal

  Iceland·20 km west

  human settlement in Iceland

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  Landscapes & nature

  Reynisfjall

  Iceland·20 km west

  mountain in Iceland

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  Landscapes & nature

  Reynisdrangar

  Iceland·21 km west

  basalt sea stacks situated under the mountain Reynisfjall, southern Iceland

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  Landscapes & nature

  Reynisfjara

  Iceland·23 km west

  black sand beach in southern Iceland near the town of Vík í Mýrdal

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