Bárðarbunga
catdynamics | August 24, 2014good thing about Icelandic, it is phonetic, almost all the words are pronounced the way they are spelled, including Bárðarbunga
the extra few letters are just what they look like.
Fortunately Biggi Lögga is there to set you straight.
catdynamics | August 22, 2014Bárðarbunga is arguably the scariest of the 30 or so active volcanoes in Iceland.
Extreme volcanoes don't always have extreme eruptions, but they are scary because they have the capability for extreme events, uniquely so.
Bárðarbunga - under the ice cap at the top left - from Google maps
It is not the most active, it is not the tallest, it may possibly be the biggest in some sense, but it is the volcano which gave us the largest eruption on Earth since modern humans started trying to get organized: the Þjórsárhraun eruption about 8,500 years ago.
[caption id="attachment_3871" align="…