Snæfellsjökull II

Mt. Snæfellsjökull (1446 m) seen from the south. It is a stratovolcano with a glacial cap at the tip of the Snæfellsnes peninsula in W-Iceland and one of the best known mountains in Iceland, not least due to Jules Verne's story, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which started at the top of the mountain (as did the recent eponymus Brendan Fraser movie, although it will hardly be considered a classic like Verne's novel). The glacial cap can barely be seen here, as it is more visible from the east - and across the Faxaflói bay from Reykjavík, 110 km away, where it is a beloved cone-shaped landmark. It has thinned and contracted in recent years and is now about 13 square kilometers. It may disappear altogether this century as local and global temperatures continue to rise. This angle of the volcano offers a view of the lines and ridges of viscous lava flows, which have leaked like heavy syrup down its slopes.