Small "Suðurnes" (Reykjanes Peninsula) and large "Suðurland" are often geographically connected to one region.
Next to the town of Keflavík, Iceland's international airport is located at the western end of the Reykjanes Peninsula. This airport with it's industry around, let Keflavik and the Reykjanesbær area grow to almost 16.000 inhabitants (Jan. 2020).
The over all population number of the Reykjanes Peninsula is approx. 27.800 (Jan. 2020).
Suðurland defines the southern part of Iceland with it's largest town Selfoss (Population approx. 6.000). Also a part of the southern district are the "Vestmannaeyjar" (Westman Islands - Population approx. 4.300 - Jan. 2019).
Together with the capital region, Suðurland is the most frequented tourist destination in Iceland.
The entire southern district counts about 28.400 inhabitants (Jan. 2020).
Lakagígar / Laki (818 m) - fissure volcano (last eruption 1783-1784)
Solidified lava with fragile moss growth
Kirkjubæjarklaustur / Kirkjugólfið (Church Floor) - natural basalt formation
Þórsmörk
The river Krossá rises at Krossárjökull, passes Þórsmörk and ends in the sea at Markarfljót
Stakkholtsgjá
Hrafntinnusker (1.141 m)
Byggðasafnið í Skógum / Skógasafn (Skogar Museum)
Eyjafjallajökull (1.666 m)
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Reynisfjara seen from Dyrhólaey
View in summer
View in winter
Dyrhólaey
Reynisdrangar seen from Dyrhólaey
Hálsanefshellir with Reynisdrangar
Dyrhólaey seen from Reynisfjara - View in summer
View in winter
Drangurinn in Drangshlíð - Old cowshed in front of tuff rock with caves below Eyjafjöll mountains
According to legend, elves live in the rock and protect calves at birth while the farmer must stay away
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Skógafoss
The waterfall is 25 meters wide and it's drop height is 60 meters
Skógafoss - upper river
View in summer
View in a mild winter without strong storms (2019)
View in a snowy winter with heavy sandstorms (2022)
Ice with black sand on it's surface at Skógafoss
Vestmannaeyjar / Population 4.301 (2019)
Electric powered Vestmannaeyjar Ferry "Herjólfur IV" approaching Heimaey
Town of Heimaey - View from volcano Eldfell (last eruption 1973)
Heimaey with 1973 lava field in the foreground
Skólavegur
Houses with 1973 lava field in the background
Stafkirkjan
Rocks at Heimaey port exit
Plane Wreck at Sólheimasandur - The Plane crashed there in 1973 and was never removed.
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Gljúfrabúi next to Seljalandsfoss
Seljalandsfoss - drop height 66 meters
Ice at Seljalandsfoss
Seljavallalaug (built in 1923)
Urriðafoss - Iceland's most voluminous waterfall (at very low water level)
Leirvogsvatn / Mosfellsheiði
Þingvallavegur
Parking lot at Þingvallavegur
Þingvellir National Park
Þingvellir / Almannagjá / Öxarárfoss
Öxarárfoss
Þingvallakirkja (built in 1859)
Þingvallavatn
Þingvallavatn seen from eastern Þingvallavegur
Geysir / Strokkur
Surface around Geysir
Frozen grass near Strokkur
Gullfoss at Hvítá river in Haukadalur
Sigríður Tómasdóttir from Brattholt farm...
...could prevent the built of a hydroelectric power station in 1920 at Gullfoss
The waterfall's drop height is 32 meters over two stages
Þjóðveldisbær - reconstructed farm based on the excavated farmhouse Stöng
Stöng - excavated farm probably destroyed during Hekla eruption in 1104
Hjálparfoss
Along Landmannaleið and F208
Approaching Landmannalaugar
Landmannalaugar natural bath
Water temperature varies between 27° and 43°C (...but comes out of the hill with 75°C!)
F-Road maintenance
Sprengisandsleið F26 (starts near Hrauneyjar / Suðurland)
Crossing Sprengisandur during early Bárðarbunga earthquakes in 2014 (F26 wasn't closed yet)...
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Björgunarsveit at Nýidalur
Björgunarsveit near Aldeyjarfoss
Björgunarsveit in front of Aldeyjarfoss (Norðurland eystra)
Sprengisandur near Aldeyjarfoss (Norðurland eystra)
Sprengisandsleið F26 (ends near Aldeyjarfoss / Norðurland eystra)
Strandarkirkja / Reykjanes - founded in 12th century / completed in 1888
Reykjanes Hraun
Bláa Lónið (Blue Lagoon) / Þorbjörn (243 m)
The water is naturally heated deep under the lava field "Illahraun"
Visitors bath in 30% freshwater, 70% seawater, diatoms (rock algaes) and 2.5% salt
Reykjanesbraut
River bed between Vík í Mýrdal and Kirkjubæjarklaustur (aerial view)
Hafursey mountain north-east of Vík í Mýrdal with typical long shadow in flat winter light (aerial view)
Ölfusá river delta with Eyrarbakki to the right during winter time (aerial view)
Þorlákshöfn (to the left) and Eyrarbakki (to the right) with Ölfusá river delta in late autumn (aerial view)
