Eldfell, Heimaey, Iceland. Photograph by the late Svienn Eirikksen, fire marshal of the town of Vestmannaeyjar.

Iceland is an island made of numerous overlapping volcanoes. The volcanoes are associated with a divergent plate boundary, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where new oceanic plate is added to the North American and Eurasian plates and with a hot-spot that underly. No wonder there is such prolific volcanic activity in Iceland!

For more about Iceland volcanoes see the Nordic Volcanologic Institute!

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