VOLCANO 2010Photo: AFP

ICELAND

• The icecap of the glacier Eyjafjallajökull (meaning 'island mountain glacier') covers a volcano (1,666 metres or 5,466 ft in height) which has erupted relatively frequently since the last Ice Age.

• The volcano erupted twice in 2010, on 20 March and 15 April. • The April eruption caused massive disruption to air traffic across Northern

Europe and scientists claimed it was ten to twenty times more powerful than the March event.

• The most recent eruption before 2010 was from 1821 to 1823, causing a

fatal glacial lake outburst flood. A previous eruption was in 1612. The crater of the volcano has a diameter of 3–4 kilometres (1.9–2.5 mi) and the glacier covers an area of about 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi).

ICELAND – VOLCANO 2010

Photo: Icelandic Coastguard

Photo: Arni Saeberg

Photo: Arni Saeberg

Photo: Arni Saeberg

Photo: NASA/Robert Simmon

Photo: Halldor Kolbeins

Photo: Halldor Kolbeins

Photo: Bruce McAdam

Photo: Brynjar Gaudi

Photo: NASA/University of Dundee

Photo: Ulrich Latzenhofer

Photo: Fior Kjartansson

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Photo: Halldor Kolbeins

Photo: Halldor Kolbeins

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