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Inside the vulcano

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Krafla is a caldera of about 10 km in diameter with a 90 km long fissure zone, in the north of Iceland in the Mývatn region. Its highest peak reaches up to 818 m; it has erupted 29 times and it is 2km in depth.

 

Krafla includes one of the two best-known Víti craters of Iceland (the other is in Askja). The Icelandic word "víti" means "hell". In former times, people often believed hell to be under volcanoes. The crater Víti has a green lake inside of it.

 

The Krafla area also includes Námafjall, a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles.

 

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Uploaded on December 13, 2009
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