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UMBROT // ERUPTION – COLD FACTS ABOUT HOT ICE CAP

Main Gallery 15.05. – 26.06.2005 Vatnajökull is the largest glacier in Europe. Volcanic activity under glaciers, which is greater in Iceland than anywhere else, is most extensive beneath the Vatnajökull glacier. Vatnajökull is both the coldest place in Iceland, and at the same time the hottest glacier in the world.  To come across a boiling mud spring in the middle of a glacier is to make contact with an untouched autonomous world, where past, present and future blend together in one bubbling vortex. A visit to a geothermal area of the Vatnajökull glacier is like a confrontation with the Creation […]

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