Early the next morning, I boarded the ferry to Heimaey, the only inhabited ... and from the top you can see how close the lava came to blocking the island’s lifeline of a harbour.

Your browser does not support the audio element. A little over four miles off the southern coast of Iceland lies Heimaey, an island with a population of around 4,400 ...

One display case is dedicated to Emma's work on Iceland, in particular the 1973 lava and ash eruption of Edfell volcano (Heimaey Island, Iceland). This eruption destroyed over 400 buildings and forced ...