The Ring - 2451 km of Iceland

Dates

2018 - 2018
Author

Claudia Cuomo
Topics Landscape, Travel
Location Iceland, Iceland

THE RING - 2451 KM OF ICELAND

Snæfellsnes peninsula (West)

Arnarstapi (West)

Glymur (West)

Geysir Area (South West)

Flúðir (South West)

Suðurland (South)

Seljalandsfoss (South)

Vík í Mýrdal (South)

Reynisfjara black beach (South)

Dyrhólaey (South)

Skógafoss (South)

Sólheimasandur black sand beach (South)

Svínafellsjökull glacier (South East)

Jökulsárlón Lake (South East)

Egilsstaðir (East)

Höfn (East)

Namafjall Hverir geothermal area (North East)

Myvatn Lake (North East)

Grjótagjá caves (North east)

Goðafoss (North)

Siglufjörður (North)

Borgarvirkir volcanic plug (North)

© Claudia Cuomo - Image from the The Ring - 2451 km of Iceland photography project

The Londrangar cliffs are remains of a crater which has been eroded to its present form by sea and winds. The farmers in the area never made or make hay on the hill, because it is said to belong to the elves living there. Here,according to a legend, the poet Kolbeinn Jöklaskáld came across the Devil

The name "Geysir" has been first mentioned in written sources in 18th century and, as unusual natural phenomena were of high interest during Enlightenment, it has been used for similar features worldwide since then. It lies in Haukadalur valley, where most of the springs run with the tectonic lines

Gljúfrabúi means "the one who lives in the gorge".The water runs through the edge of a lava field formed at the beginning of Holocene.There is a certain mystique over these falls because partially obscured by their own canyon. People believed that it was the residence of huldufólk or "hidden people"

The Eldhraun Lava Field was created in one of the most devastating event in recorded history, Lakagígar eruption,1783.Historians have speculated that the haze created by the eruption blocked sunlight in Europe and may have eventually triggered the French Revolution. Today it is a green moss blanket

Goðafoss,the "fall of the gods",Northeastern Region.Around the year 999 the lawspeaker Þorgeir Ljósvetningagoði made Christianity the official religion of Iceland.According to a modern myth,it's said that upon returning from the Alþingi, Þorgeir threw his statues of the Norse gods into the waterfall

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