If you are visiting the area, please check the\u00a0Gas Report<\/a>\u00a0so you know where the danger zones are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interestingly, the lava is the same material as the black sand on most of Iceland\u2019s beaches. The difference is the way they come out of the volcano. Lava fields come from both small, low-level volcanoes and fissure eruptions. The black sand comes from much larger volcanoes with glaciers on them. Mixing huge chunks of glacier ice and molten lava produces violent eruptions that turn the lava into ash or sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As you travel in and out of Reykjavik and the surrounding towns, you might notice that where the city begins, the lava field ends. This shows how close Reykjavik could be to volcanic activity and also how nature is boss, because it is almost impossible to develop a lava field apart from making an elevated road over it. The lava fields are not only difficult to build on, but they are almost impossible to walk across without your clothes and shoes getting ripped. In deep snow, they are even more dangerous because you can sink into a deep hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fire lava field<\/em> The effects of the poisonous gases, ash clouds and crop failures was devastating in Iceland. One in every five Icelanders (20%) lost there lives, leaving every family in the area affected. The following year (1784) was know as \u2018The year without a Summer\u2019 in Alaska<\/a>. Some theories suggest that it caused crop failures in Europe which led to the French Revolution in 1789.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Berserkjahraun is such a wild location that it was named after the notorious Berserka Viking. \u2018Berserka\u2019 means \u2018Bear Shirt\u2019. These fierce battle Vikings were considered to be possessed by supernatural powers that made them invincible and even fireproof. The shapes of volcanic lava found at Berserkjahraun on the Sn\u00e6fellsnes Peninsular are so wild and extreme that they were named after these warriors. The fiery flow came from the red craters close to the Northern shoreline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lava Fields can be found at many of\u00a0Iceland\u2019s top photo locations<\/a>. Godafoss and Hraunfossa are waterfalls that flow through the lava landscape. The black church at Bu\u00f0ir is right on the door step of Bu\u00f0ahraun flow on the southern shoreline of the Snaefellsness peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCraters and Fissures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
No man\u2019s land<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Eldhraun Lava Field<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Eldhraun means \u2018Fire Lava Field\u2019 and was named by the Icelanders who actually experienced the catastrophic crater eruption in 1783. Eldraun is Europe\u2019s largest lava field started at Mount Laki to the South West of the Vatnaj\u00f6kull Glacier<\/a> and quite close to the peaceful village of Kirkjub\u00e6jarklaustur<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Eldhraun](\"https:\/\/www.icelandaurora.com\/photoguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/02\/RD7A6110.jpg\")
A year without a Summer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Berserkjahraun Lava Field<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Berserkjahraun](\"https:\/\/www.icelandaurora.com\/archive-phototours\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/02\/Berserk2.jpg\")
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Other locations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Landscape Photography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n