Laufskálavarða
Laufskálavarða is a lava ridge covered by hundreds of small cairns beside Route 1 in ....
Skeiðarársandur in south east Iceland
Skeiðarársandur stretches between the southern edge of Vatnajökull and the Atlantic coast, forming a broad ....
Skeiðarárjökull glacier in South east Iceland
Skeiðarárjökull is a vast outlet of Vatnajökull whose rivers and jökulhlaups created Skeiðarársandur. Its history ....
Öræfajökull glacier and volcano
Öræfajökull is an ice-covered stratovolcano rising to Hvannadalshnjúkur, Iceland’s highest summit. Its enormous eruption in ....
Fjallsjökull glacier
Fjallsjökull is a steep outlet glacier descending from the southern side of Öræfajökull into Fjallsárlón. ....
Skaftafellsjökull glacier in Skaftafell national park
Skaftafellsjökull is a broad outlet glacier of Vatnajökull reached on a marked walk from Skaftafell. ....
Skaftafell national park
Skaftafell brings woodland, waterfalls, glacier tongues, mountain ridges and the open expanse of Skeiðarársandur together ....
Kvíárjökull glacier
Kvíárjökull descends steeply from the Öræfajökull sector of Vatnajökull through a narrow, fractured icefall. A ....
Hvannadalshnúkur Mountain top
Hvannadalshnúkur is Iceland’s highest summit, rising to 2,109.6 metres on the northwestern rim of the ....
Falljökull glacier
Falljökull glacier is the steep southern arm of the connected Virkisjökull–Falljökull glacier system in Öræfi. ....
Eldhraun lava field
Eldhraun was created by lava from the 1783–1784 Skaftá Fires at Lakagígar, an eruption whose ....
Lómagnúpur standing rock
Lómagnúpur rises 767 metres above the western edge of Skeiðarársandur, where its immense southern cliff ....
Fjaðrárgljúfur canyon
Fjaðrárgljúfur is a winding canyon near Kirkjubæjarklaustur, cut by the Fjaðrá river through palagonite bedrock. ....
Fjallsárlón glacier lagoon
Fjallsárlón lies at the foot of Fjallsjökull beneath the Öræfajökull massif. Smaller and more enclosed ....
Svínafellsjökull glacier
Svínafellsjökull descends from Öræfajökull into a confined valley east of Skaftafell. Its steep, intensely crevassed ....
Systrafoss in Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Systrafoss is a pair of waterfalls descending from Systravatn immediately behind Kirkjubæjarklaustur. The two streams, ....
Stjórnarfoss waterfall by Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Stjórnarfoss is a two-stage waterfall on the river Stjórn near Kirkjubæjarklaustur. Its lower drop spreads ....
Hoffell and Hoffellsjökull Glacier – Hot Springs and Ice in Southeast Iceland
Hoffell is a farm and mountain area in Southeast Iceland leading towards Hoffellsjökull, an outlet ....
Höfn Í Hornafirði
Höfn is the principal town of southeastern Iceland, built around a working fishing harbour on ....
Breiðárlón lagoon
Breiðárlón is a quiet proglacial lake beside Breiðamerkurjökull in Vatnajökull National Park. Reached by a ....