Museum at the foot of Eyjafjallajokutl volcano
The volcano is located north of Skó gar and west of Mý rdalsjokull.
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At the foot of the volcano with a hard-to-pronounce name Eyjafjallajokull, due to the eruption of which in the spring of 2010 there was the largest failure of air communication over Europe, on April 14, 2011, a museum was opened. There you can get acquainted with the chronicle of the events of the eruption, as well as with the history of the volcano itself.
In fact, Eyjafjallajokull is one of the smallest glaciers in Iceland, its height is 1666 meters.
From Icelandic its name translates as “island-mountain-glacier”. Eyjafjallajökull is part of a chain of volcanoes stretching across Iceland. It erupted in 920, 1612, then from 1821 to 1823, and again in 2010. Currently, volcanologists continue to monitor him.