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Dusk falls on Iceland’s Snæfellsnes Peninsula.  A final relic from the world’s last ice age, this North Atlantic island nation is a world of knife-cut valleys, gargantuan fjords, monumental cliffs, black-sand beaches, thundering waterfalls and silent glaciers.  Volcanic eruptions remind its residents that Iceland is still a country in the making, with changed landscapes that even Icelanders continue to discover.  Photograph by Johnathan A. Esper, Getty Images.

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A glacial torrent pours over a 40-foot-high ledge at Gođafoss, “waterfall of the gods,” in Iceland.  After the Icelandic assembly adopted Christianity in A.D. 1000, its leader threw his pagan idols into the falls.  The mossy island in the foreground, notes geographer Guđrún Gísladóttir, “is protected from sheep.”  Photograph by Orsolya and Erlend Haarberg, National Geographic.

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Jökulsárlón, Iceland’s Glacier Lagoon

Photos: Örvar Atli Þorgeirsson

 

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