Driving along endless lava fields
The highway no. 1 passing the Hoffellsjökull glaci…
Svínafellsjökull Glacier Tongue
Natural ice sculptures in foreground
More ice pieces on the Jökulsárlón beach
Natural ice sculpture on the black beach of Jökuls…
Ice rocks on the black beach
Tour amphibian vehicles for a Jökulsárlón excursio…
Walk along the Vatnajökull glacier
Vatnajökull Icecap
Höfn
Vatnajökull Icecap, the view from Höfn
The harbour in Höfn
The harbour in Höfn
Graffiti painting on a house wall in Reykjavik
The Hekla volcano and its eruption history
Climbing on the lava hills
Beside the highway no. 1
Svartifoss (The Black Waterfall)
Beach at the dam bank
Reeds swayed by the wind in the sunset
Mekong with low water level caused by reckless Chi…
First Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge
Going close to the Hekla volcano
The landscape around the Hekla volcano
The highway back to Selfoss village
Hot springs near Reykjavik
The Old Harbour of Reykjavik
Reykjavik skyline under heavy weather
Minke whale shows its backside
On the way to the Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon outside
A walk in the Skaftafell nationalpark
Glacial lake in Skaftafell
Glacial branch of the Glacier Vatnajokull
Lakes from the Svinafellsjökull glacier
The Svinafellsjökull glacier
The run-out of the Svinafellsjökull glacier
Svinafellsjökull lakes
Way to the Svinafellsjökull glacier
The view to the Svinafellsjökull glacier
Two German youngsters missing since one year
The Skeiðará river flows into a glacial lake
The Skeiðará river at the end of the Svinafellsjök…
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Sleeping Hekla volcano
Hekla is a stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland close to the village Hella with a height of 1.488 metres. Hekla is Iceland's most active volcano; over 20 eruptions have occurred in and around the volcano since 874. During the Middle Ages, Icelanders called the volcano the "Gateway to Hell."
Hekla is part of a volcanic ridge, 40 kilometres long. However, the most active part of this ridge, a fissure about 5.5 km long named Heklugjá, is considered to be the volcano Hekla proper. Hekla looks rather like an overturned boat, with its keel being in fact a series of craters, two of which are generally the most active.
The volcano's frequent large eruptions have covered much of Iceland with tephra and these layers can be used to date eruptions of Iceland's other volcanos. 10% of the tephra produced in Iceland in the last thousand years has come from Hekla, amounting to 5 qkm. The volcano has produced one of the largest volumes of lava of any in the world in the last millennium, around 8 qkm.
Hekla is part of a volcanic ridge, 40 kilometres long. However, the most active part of this ridge, a fissure about 5.5 km long named Heklugjá, is considered to be the volcano Hekla proper. Hekla looks rather like an overturned boat, with its keel being in fact a series of craters, two of which are generally the most active.
The volcano's frequent large eruptions have covered much of Iceland with tephra and these layers can be used to date eruptions of Iceland's other volcanos. 10% of the tephra produced in Iceland in the last thousand years has come from Hekla, amounting to 5 qkm. The volcano has produced one of the largest volumes of lava of any in the world in the last millennium, around 8 qkm.
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