Heimaey
Cruises: cultural and specialist interest holidays
...14-night Iceland's Natural Wonders cruise from Dover on Saga Pearl II, departing on June 28 with stops including Heimaey, Reykjavik, Grundarfjordur, Isafjordur, Akureyri and Seydisfjordur,...
Cod Wars
...and formed a special group to defend the trawlers. On 23 January 1973, the volcano Eldfell on Heimaey erupted and the Coast Guard needed to divert its attention to rescuing the...
JavaScript and Flash are required to fully enjoy Evri
Eurasian Plate
...Ridge, which is straddled by Iceland. The 1973 eruption of Eldfell, the volcano of the Icelandic island Heimaey, caused by the North American and the Eurasian plates pulling apart,...
Helgafell (volcano)
The cone of the dormant Helgafell volcano seen from the summit rim of Eldfell volcano, island of Heimaey Helgafell is an inactive 227 meter high volcanic cone located on the island of...
Eldfell
...is a composite volcanic cone just over high on the Icelandic island of Heimaey. It formed in a volcanic eruption which began without warning just outside the town of Heimaey on 23 January...
Surtsey
...the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Vestmannaeyjar also produced the famous eruption of Eldfell on the island of Heimaey in 1973. The eruption that created Surtsey also created a few other small...
Heimaey stave church
...is situated at Heimaey, Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. The church was completed on 30 July 2000 and was a present from Norway to Iceland as a gift for the millennium anniversary of the first...
Hrisey
...km wide at its widest point in the south. It is the second-largest island off the coast of Iceland (after Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar). It has a population of approximately 200 people,...
Helgi Olafsson
...who won the Icelandic Chess Championship six times and, as of 2009, holds an Elo rating of 2522. A native of Heimaey, the largest and sole populated island in the Vestmannaeyjar Westmen...
Vestmannaeyjar
The cone of the dormant Helgafell volcano seen from the summit rim of Eldfell volcano, island of Heimaey Location of Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland (lower left) Vestmannaeyjar (English: The...
Vestmannaeyjar Airport
...() is a two-runway airport on the island of Heimaey, in Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands), a small archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. It is also known as Westman Islands Airport.
The Control of Nature (book)
...John McPhee that chronicles three attempts (with varying success) to control natural processes. The residents of Heimaey, Iceland saved their harbor by spraying water on the volcanic lava...
