Volcano House

Volcano house

A Blast from the Past
Reykjavik's Volcano House
The Volcano House occupies an enviable location in Reykjavik, with its large bay windows overlooking the intersection of Tryggvagata and Geirsgata and the colourful old harbour lying just beyond. Inside, comfortable 60's and 70's era Danish- and Icelandic-designed teak armchairs cluster around sleek, low tables where guests chat over coffee. Nostalgic baby boomers will surely feel right at home. A group of Japanese tourists pore animatedly over reference books that deal with all things volcanic, while children play with a few carefully selected 60's style toys in a far corner. Indeed, the whole concept of the Volcano House has been carefully thought out down to the last detail. Rows of blue upholstered folding cinema seats from the 70's were imported from Sweden, as was the glass case displaying an array of tempting soups and sandwiches, home-made cakes and snacks. The shiny black lava pebbles used in the flooring, smoothed by centuries of seabed-erosion, is a unique and highly durable surface that does not go unnoticed by visitors who often ask about it.
The highlights of the Volcano House are two excellent 20-minute documentaries shown in its cosy in-house cinema that cover two of Iceland's most well known eruptions: the 1973 eruption in the Westman Islands and the very recent 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull. The Eyjafjallajökull film is the work of the Emmy-nominated director of photography, Jóhann Sigfússon, who has worked on other nature documentaries for the BBC, National Geographic, and Discovery Channel amongst others.
The Volcano House provides hands-on geology displays of various types of volcanic rock, as well as a large collection of beautiful semi-precious stones from all over Iceland and especially East Iceland. The gift shop offers unique volcano-themed gifts and souvenirs including original jewellery and quality coffee table photography books that would love to find a niche in your suitcase. The spacious café and cinema can seat small groups of up to 50 visitors.

Drive from FossHotel to Volcano House

We rented a car for a few days and took off to see the sites around the area. We stopped off at a great information site called Volcano House.

The Volcano House is the place for learning about volcanoes. It is dedicated to this purpose and achieves it with an impressive mineral collection and two documentaries about different volcanoes.

When you are in Reykjavík, Iceland go into the Volcano House, it is great please to visit.

Volcanic Damage on Heimaey Island, Iceland, January 1973

This video is one of two about a related topic: the January 23, 1973 volcano on Heimaey Island, Iceland. The other video on YouTube can be seen at:


While in the US Navy, Bud was stationed at the Keflavik Airport, Iceland. He was posted there from 1971 to 1973. Bud was a Lieutenant Commander, USN, and was the command duty officer on the day that a volcano erupted on a nearby island (Vestmannaeyjar). That date was January 23, 1973. The volcano was actually on the small island named Heimaey. This event is also known as the Eldell Volcano.

Vestmannaeyjar (The Westman Islands) is both a town and an archipelago off the south coast of Iceland.

Because Bud was an avid photographer (both still and video) and had high end, medium format still camera equipment (Hasselblad), he was asked to volunteer to go to the island to document photographically what was taking place. This video footage was never used officially, and only recently uncovered from archival storage.

After being flown to the island in a US Navy Douglas C3 twin engine airplane, both the weather and the resulting windblown volcanic ash prevented the plane from returning to the Keflavik Airport for several days. Bud was essentially stuck on the island with no clothes other than what he was wearing during the short flight, and no supplies. He slept on the floor of a local school (obviously no longer being used since most residents in the area had been evacuated). Food was supplied by some local residents who were involved in rescue and mitigation activities. The still pictures did not survive, for reasons that Bud cannot recall. But these poor quality video images did survive, even though they are only now being found and published.

There are many web sites that document that volcano. Here are just a few (not an endorsement):





To the best of my recollection (some forty years after the fact), these video clips were taken on January 25 and January 26, 1973, while stranded on the island.

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Top 100 best places to visit in Reykjavik, Iceland, by Explore Earth. Reykjavik is capital of Iceland. Reykjavik known as one of the greenest, cleanest and safest city in the world. As a largest city in Iceland, Reykjavik has so many tourist attractions. To know more about beautiful places in Reykjavik, simply watching this video from us.

Things to do in Reykjavik - Iceland is to visit the landmark or iconic building, Hallgrimskirkja. There also other iconic buildings in Reykjavik such as Perlan - The Wonder of Iceland and Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre. But most important thing if you are in Reykjavik is to take a tour for Northern Lights (Aurora) sightseeing.

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Iceland - Westman Islands (Vestmannaeyjar) - climbing Eldfell volcano & exploring Heimaey island

this is a part of our journey to Iceland - contains shoots from Westman Islands (Vestmannaeyjar).
The largest island, Heimaey, has a population of 4,135. The other islands are uninhabited, although six have single hunting cabins. Vestmannaeyjar came to international attention in 1973 with the eruption of Eldfell volcano, which destroyed many buildings and forced a months-long evacuation of the entire population to mainland Iceland. Approximately one fifth of the town was destroyed before the lava flow was halted by application of 6.8 billion liters of cold sea water.

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Romantic Helicopter Landing on Top of a VOLCANO in Iceland!

We landed on top of a lava filled volcano in Iceland! Yup! I stood on top of lava!!! On...a volcano!

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It was the Geothermal tour we did - so we landed in an active lava area, hence why there's steam coming out of the ground. It was an EPIC ride and I highly recommend it to all.

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1973 Iceland Volcanic Eruption

The 1973 Icelandic eruption caused a major crisis for the island and nearly led to its permanent evacuation. Volcanic ash fell over most of the island, destroying many houses, and a lava flow threatened to close off the harbour, the island's main income source via its fishing fleet. An operation was mounted to cool the advancing lava flow by pumping sea water onto it, which was successful in preventing the loss of the harbour. After the eruption finished, the islanders used heat from the slowly cooling lava flows to provide hot water and to generate electricity. They also used some of the extensive tephra, fall-out of airborne volcanic material, to extend the runway at the island's small airport, and as landfill, on which 200 new houses were built. The eruption also formed Eldfell, a composite volcanic cone just over 200 metres (660 ft) high on the Icelandic island of Heimaey. It formed just outside the town of Heimaey on 23 January1973 and its name means Mountain of Fire in Icelandic.

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