A marked hiking path through the vast new Holuhraun lava field in the central highlands has just been opened. Park rangers from Vatnajökull National Park set out the path, which is classified as challenging or even difficult and may “prove hazardous to the inexperienced or in poor conditions.”
They rangers are patrolling the area and have marked easily accessible viewpoints outside the perimeter of the eruption site.
Read more: Photos: Huge steam plumes at the new Holuhraun lava field
The huge eruption in Holuhraun lasted for 181 days. It began on 31 August 2104 and was over on 27 February.
The new lava field covers 85 square km (32.8 sq mi), which is almost 1.5 times the size of New York’s Manhattan island (22.83 sq mi, 59.1 km2)
Holuhraun’s eruptive craters are part of one of the largest volcanic systems on the planet. Bárðarbunga caldera is at the center of the 200 km (124 mi) system. The 10 km (6,2 mi) wide caldera is located underneath a 600 to 850-meter (1,968 to 2,788 ft.) thick ice cap in Vatnajökull glacier.
The eruption in Holuhraun was in an ice-free zone about 41 km (25.5 mi) north of the subglacial caldera.
Old meets new in #Holuhraun #Iceland pic.twitter.com/7ZBGRFukaB
— Sævar Helgi Bragason (@saevarhb) July 8, 2015
A marked hiking path through the vast new Holuhraun lava field in the central highlands has just been opened. Park rangers from Vatnajökull National Park set out the path, which is classified as challenging or even difficult and may “prove hazardous to the inexperienced or in poor conditions.”
They rangers are patrolling the area and have marked easily accessible viewpoints outside the perimeter of the eruption site.
Read more: Photos: Huge steam plumes at the new Holuhraun lava field
The huge eruption in Holuhraun lasted for 181 days. It began on 31 August 2104 and was over on 27 February.
The new lava field covers 85 square km (32.8 sq mi), which is almost 1.5 times the size of New York’s Manhattan island (22.83 sq mi, 59.1 km2)
Holuhraun’s eruptive craters are part of one of the largest volcanic systems on the planet. Bárðarbunga caldera is at the center of the 200 km (124 mi) system. The 10 km (6,2 mi) wide caldera is located underneath a 600 to 850-meter (1,968 to 2,788 ft.) thick ice cap in Vatnajökull glacier.
The eruption in Holuhraun was in an ice-free zone about 41 km (25.5 mi) north of the subglacial caldera.
Old meets new in #Holuhraun #Iceland pic.twitter.com/7ZBGRFukaB
— Sævar Helgi Bragason (@saevarhb) July 8, 2015
