Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere
Eyjafjallajökull in April
Bolts of lightning crackle in the midst of the erupting Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, in April. The eruption spread ash plumes throughout the atmosphere, grounding around 100,000 commercial flights across Europe.
Image taken by Landsat 7 on Oct. 21, 1999
This stretch of Iceland's northern coast resembles a tiger's head complete with stripes of orange, black, and white. The tiger's mouth is the great Eyjafjorour, a deep fjord that juts into the mainland between steep mountains. The name means "island fjord," derived from the tiny, tear-shaped Hrisey Island near its mouth. The ice-free port city of Akureyri lies near the fjord's narrow tip, and is Iceland's second largest population center after the capital, Reykjavik.
