Grímsvötn

Southern Region · Iceland

Grímsvötn, Iceland
Photo: Roger McLassus, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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June to September
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Iceland's most active volcano, buried beneath the Vatnajökull ice cap where subglacial eruptions trigger sudden glacial floods. Its hidden caldera lakes lie deep under hundreds of metres of ice.

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