SOUTH COAST

Pompeii of the North Excavation

The archaeological project uncovering buildings buried during the 1973 Eldfell eruption.

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Vestmannaeyjar

The volcanic cone created during the dramatic 1973 eruption on Heimaey.

Vestmannaeyjar

A powerful museum telling the story of Heimaey’s 1973 volcanic eruption around an excavated home buried by ash.

Vestmannaeyjar

A volcanic island born from eruptions between 1963 and 1967 and now protected as an exceptional natural laboratory.

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