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Water Power
This beautiful canyon was created by erosion from glacial meltwater cutting through the palagonite over millennia. It has carved strange, twisted pillars of rock standing on either flank of the river. A well-laid walking trail climbs the eastern side for about a mile, ans contains many observation platforms.
Fjaรฐrรกrgljรบfur ("Feather river canyon") in Skaftรกrhreppur, southern #Iceland.
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Horses On A Hill
Iceland in February, very beautiful but with unpredictable weather. We never travel without a change of warm and dry clothes, plenty of water and a high calorie snack. This was the tail-end of a strong wind storm, and we were glad to see it finish.
Vatnsdalsfjall (882m) in Hรบnavatnshreppur, north-western #Iceland.
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"His qualities were beauteous as his form,
For maiden-tongued he was, and thereof free;
Yet, if men moved him, was he such a storm
As oft 'twixt May and April is to see,
When winds breathe sweet, untidy though they be."
- #ShakespeareSunday, Lover's Complaint
A sparsely inhabited fjord on a still summer's day.
Kollafjรถrรฐur, Reykhรณlahreppur, Westfjords of NW #Iceland.
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Black Beauty
The volcanic sands of Reynisfjara, near Vรญk รญ Mรฝrdal in southern #Iceland.
This strand regularly features in lists of "World's Top Beaches" due to its cleanliness, water quality and sheer loveliness.
If it was rated for swimming and sunbathing, it would get 0/10 every time!
The basalt stump in the centre is Arnardrangur (Eagle Rock) and in the distance are the famous Reynisdrangar.
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Canyon Cascade
There are some lovely and quite famous valleys in southern #Iceland, this one is unusual because the entrance is blocked by a large, dome-shaped rock.
Stjรณrnargljรบfur (๐๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ฃ-๐ข๐ณ๐ณ-๐จ๐ญ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฐ-๐ท๐ณ๐ณ) gulley also contains a river and its waters cascade beautifully over this block.
Stjรณrnarfoss waterfall (49 ft/15 m high) in Skaftรกrhreppur. The guy in the shot is my partner!
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Snow Dome
November: A shot from a plane flying at 6500m between Reykjavik to Akureyri. The accumulation of snowflakes on the top of Hrรบtfell (1396m) eventually flows as part of a glacier - Hrรบtfellsjรถkull.
The other mountains are Innra-Sandfell and Femra-Sandfell. Blรกskรณgabyggรฐ in the western Central Highlands of #Iceland.
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Ox Valley
February: Crossing the Trรถllaskagi peninsular on a beautifully crisp day. The main ring-road, Route 1, passes between multiple 1000+ metre high mountains as it winds between Skagafjรถrรฐur and Eyjafjรถrรฐur in the north of #Iceland.
I particularly love this spot, dropping down into รxnadalur from Krรณkรกrdalur, but I'd never seen the road picked out so clearly before.
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Glacial Motion
Svรญnafellsjรถkull ("Pig Mountain Glacier") in the midday sunshine, farm buildings at its foot lending scale.
The dark lobe near ground level at the snout is from a landslide - the glacier shrinkage has left the side walls dangerously unsupported, and the collapse is accelerating the melt of the ice beneath.
October, Hornafjรถrรฐur in south-eastern #Iceland.
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"Northern Lights" //ยฉ Guilherme Mesquita
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Guilherme Mesquita ๐ง๐ท on Instagram: "Aurora boreal em Aldeyjarfoss, Islรขndia ๐ฎ๐ธ Northern lights at Aldeyjarfoss, Iceland ๐ฎ๐ธ"
guilhermegmesquita on September 2, 2023: "Aurora boreal em Aldeyjarfoss, Islรขndia ๐ฎ๐ธ Northern lights at Aldeyjarfoss, Iceland ๐ฎ๐ธ".Instagram
Cloudy pillars of strong aurora, Berufjรถrรฐur in eastern #Iceland.
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Sunset Moonrise
4pm and the sun is beginning to set in the west-southwest. The semi-frozen fjord waters are partly reflecting the cyan sky, and parts of the opposite bank are picking up the late sunlight.
February: Hrรบtafjรถrรฐur in north-western #Iceland.
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Harbouring Good Feelings
Early afternoon in late October, and a few fishing boats are docked at the piers.
Seyรฐisfjรถrรฐur in eastern #Iceland.
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Misty Distance
February: Looking across Barmahraun lava field towards Reyรฐarbarmur (652m/2140ft) and Kรกlfstindar (877m/2877ft), Blรกskรณgabyggรฐ in western #Iceland.
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"How green you are and fresh in this old world!"
- #ShakespeareSunday, King John
November: Aurora above Berufjรถrรฐur in eastern #Iceland.
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Sunset Flight
February: A plane crosses Blรกfjรถll above a cloud bank painted pastel peach and orange by the setting sun.
Reykjanes peninsula in south-western #Iceland.
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Floating Islands
July: This is Hvalfjรถrรฐur* in western #Iceland. What looks like an island in the fjord is actually a spit of land curving away from the viewpoint.
In the background is Skarรฐsheiรฐi mountain range, with Skarรฐshyrna on the left.
* โ๐๐ช๐๐ก๐ก-๐ง๐บ๐ฐ๐ณ-๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ณ
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The Little Bridge
Traffic crosses the Andakรญlsรก river towards the hills of Brekkufjall, with Skarรฐsheiรฐi mountain range beyond.
August, Skorradalshreppur in western #Iceland.
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A drone picture shows lava spewing from the site of the volcanic eruption north of Grindavik, photographed from Sylingarfell, Iceland, December 19, 2023. REUTERS/Sigurdur Davidsson
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Lava oozes from a new fissure near Fagradalsfjall, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. Image taken April 9, 2021. REUTERS/Cat Gundry-Beck
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Cloaked
September, and the vog from an eruption in a different part of #Iceland is causing some unusual atmospheric conditions around the island nation.
In this one, sunbeams are being intensified by the gaseous haze high above.
Hekla in รjรณrsรกrdalur.
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"Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
And after summer evermore succeeds
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet."
- #ShakespeareSunday, Henry VI, Part II
Cloud gathers in รverรกrdalur valley, at the foot of Tungufjall mountain in Skagafjรถrรฐur, north-western #Iceland.
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