For many years we’ve been sending our clients to experience the splendour of Iceland’s volatile landscape – brooding volcanoes, seething geothermal springs, steaming lava flows and, from time to time, live eruptions!
These tend to occur once every five years, but are also fickle and hard to predict precisely. Eruptions may last only days or sometimes, months and can be part of a recurring period of activity. This is currently being seen on the Reykjanes Peninsula in south west Iceland, where between March 2021 and August 2024, there were no fewer than nine fissure eruptions. An incredible tenth eruption started on 21 November 2024 near Svartsengi.
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Images of the eruption, July 2023
On the 10 July a fissure eruption started at Litli-Hrútur north of Fagradalsfjall on the Reykjanes Peninsula and lasted about a month. It occurred near to the sites of the 2021 and 2022 volcanic eruptions. A tourist-friendly eruption, molten red lava was visible from a hiking trail established at a safe distance from the eruption, providing the chance to witness one of nature’s most dramatic sights.
Photographer RTH Sigurdsson
Images of the eruption in the Geldingadalur Valley in 2021
On the 10 July a fissure eruption started at Litli-Hrútur north of Fagradalsfjall on the Reykjanes Peninsula and lasted about a month. It occurred near to the sites of the 2021 and 2022 volcanic eruptions. A tourist-friendly eruption, molten red lava was visible from a hiking trail established at a safe distance from the eruption, providing the chance to witness one of nature’s most dramatic sights.
Photographer RTH Sigurdsson
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