Posted on 05/07/2010 9:26:22 PM PDT by cogitator
Here's the tour around Iceland's Myrdalsjökull ice cap I promised; this ice cap is on top of Katla volcano, which has apparently erupted every time after Eyjafjallajökull erupted (historically). Katla is bigger and reputedly nastier.
(click for full-size unless otherwise indicated)
I Heart columnar basalt:
Skogar stream (this one's full-size) 
360-degree panorama of the Solheimajokull glacier:
Hraftinnusker, looking like what I imagine the Martian polar regions look like:
Myrdalsjökull from the air:
from the side:
Colored valleys and blue lake
Axlafoss
** ping **
BEAUTIFUL. THX THX.
thx
Wow.....beautiful.
It was Bobby Fisher and Tom Clancey who initially got me interested in Iceland.
Katla Kan’t Wait!
Welcome Back Katla!
Well ... a little!
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