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Unusual Surge In Geothermal Activity At Geysir Area
An increase in geothermal activity has been observed at the Geysir geothermal area in Haukadalur since Saturday, October 19, drawing the attention of both experts and locals. According to a Facebook post by the Icelandic Met Office, their monitoring systems — including…
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Ask An Expert: How Do Geysers Erupt?
Geysers are some of the most popular natural phenomena to be observed and studied — there’s just something fun about seeing the Earth let out a great big belch every once in a while. But how and why do geysers erupt? We…
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Farmer Found Geyser In His Yard
Last week on Tuesday, a farmer was (un)pleasantly surprised by a geyser in his yard, Vísir reports. An old borehole for hot water, that had not been useful for over thirty years, has turned into a geyser and has since erupted several…
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RVK Newscast #102: The Fire Geyser Now Reach 300 Metres
According to the newest findings by Icelandic geologists, the fire geyser’s lava fountain, or number five as it’s called, reaches 300 metres now. Whereas in the beginning, it was around 200-250 metres. Additionally, the volcano is now twice the size than it…
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RVK Newscast #101: Volcano For Sale & A New Name For The Lava Field
The town of Grindavík has agreed on a name for the lava field growing around the volcano and is working on paths to make the area more accessible. We also try to explain why the volcano’s new lava fountain is shooting almost…
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RVK Newscast #100: The Volcano Is Now A Fire Geyser!
The volcano in Geldingadalir is becoming even weirder and has now transformed into a kind of fire geyser. Currently, all of the craters have now dried up except the one scientists call Number Five. And said crater is behaving like a geyser,…
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Abandoned Iceland #9: Skaftafell National Park
Svartifoss, the most gothic waterfalls of them all in Skaftafell, south of Iceland. The waterfall inspired the architect, Guðjón Samúlesson, to use stuðlaberg or columnar basalt for his design of the national theatre as well as Hallgrímskirkja. As you would expect in…
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Abandoned Iceland #8: Golden Circle—Geysir
Sam travels back in time to April 2020 to explore how things were at Geysir Hot Springs area during COVID-19. Sound off in the comments below and tell us where you want us to go next! Thanks to GoCar Rental for providing…
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Tourists Ignore Repeat Warnings Of Danger At Geysir
Icelanders at the spouting hot spring Geysir repeatedly tried to tell a group of thirty or so tourist to leave an off limits, dangerous area, as this video comedian Margrét Erla Maack posted on Facebook shows: Diverging from the path is…
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A Glittering Unicorn With A Colourful Butt In This Week’s #GVPics Instagram Competition
In the last week Iceland was blessed with lots of sunshine, extravaganza and colourful Pride people and of course, adventurous tourists exploring wonders of nature. This all gave a lot of inspiration to the participants of our Instagram competition. Check out the…
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Hveragerði Gets A Geyser!
The Icelandic Tourist Board has allocated 2.9 million ISK for the development of the geothermal park in Hveragerði. Sunnlenska reports that this money will likely be used for the creation of a geyser at the park. If everything goes as planned, the…
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Artist Dumps Red Dye In Geyser
Tourists greeted with the sight of Strokkur erupting in a bright pink colour have apparently seen the latest work by artist Marco Evaristti. Vísir reports that the artist had poured red dye into Strokkur as a part of an installation work entitled…