Reynisdrangar basalt sentinels
The Reynisdrangar basalt stacks rise dramatically out of the sea in front of the black volcanic sands of Reynisfjara beach, below Reynisfjall, a 340 m high tuff mountain formed by a volcanic eruption under a glacier in the penultimate ice age near the village of Vik, Iceland. The Reynisdrangar stacks are a collection of 66m high rocks from the same geological formation as Reynisfjall.
Legend has it that the stacks were created when two trolls dragged a three-masted ship ashore unsuccessfully, and when daylight broke they became needles of rock.
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- Europe (3778)
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- Iceland (287)
- Exact location (-19.0355 W, 63.4012 N)
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Taken on 14
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2023
Submitted on 28 March 2024
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Francesco Ioli (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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