Our Geosites
Reykjanes UNESCO Global Geopark is an area of 829 square kilometers, 0.85% of Iceland. There the Mid-Atlantic Ridge rises above sea level. Various forms of volcanic activity that has shaped the peninsula for a long time. In the Geopark it’s easy to find geothermal activity and see the shaping of different landscapes, hundreds of different craters, caves and lava fields, a variety of bird life, astonishing cliffs, high geothermal activity, and black sand beaches.
The Geopark and its hiking trails are accessible all year round.
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The Reykjanes lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse currently operated in Iceland, from 1908. A lighthouse keeper and farmer used...
length
1 km
difficulty
Easy
The normal fault and tension fracture, Hrafnagjá, is the longest of its kind at the Reykjanes Peninsula, 12 km...
length
2 km
difficulty
Easy
A clearing (kipuka) over which the lava Ögmundarhraun didn´t flow during an eruption in 1151, with remains of farm...
difficulty
Easy
A small, naturally carved pool, by marine erosion, at the lava shore edge west of the town of Grindavík....
length
8 km
difficulty
Average
A monogenetic crater row formed about 2,300 years ago. The lava flow entered the sea (where the town of...