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Written by Meg
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Thursday, 08 April 2010 12:23 |
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Watching the photos on the internet, I was inspired to spontaneity and booked a flight to Reykjavik, to view the eruption of an unpronounceable (at least to me) volcano that has begun to erupt in a fissure that crosses a popular hiking track between two glaciers, Eyjaflahlajokull and Myrdalsjokull, on the south coast of Iceland. At night, hundreds of specially-modified jeeps, Super Jeeps, travel across the Myrdalsjokull to get a view of this eruption. The jeeps stop at the edge of the glacier to deflate their extra wide tires to make them even wider, and by doing so they can drive this heavy vehicle and multiple passengers across the ice and are lighter than you or I standing on the ice. Although it was explained to me, I still cannot comprehend the physics of this. Last night, in addition to hundreds of Icelandars and tourists present to catch a view of the volcano's fireworks, the BBC was filming an episode of Top Gear, showing the Super Jeeps driving across ice and newly formed lava flows with their tires occasionally catching on fire. It was quite the show all night long, the rapidfire explosions of the lava, the trails of headlights bouncing through tracks across the snow and ice, the dancing figures of photographers silhouetted against the fiery crater and trailing lava flows. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 15 April 2010 11:36 )
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Written by Meg Weston
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 00:00 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 15 April 2010 11:58 )
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