Icelandic 'weather' north of Reykjavik near the island of Flatey
Previously there was a page titled 'Urban Iceland' which most of us might consider to have given some coverage to the rural aspects of the country, but such matters are relative. On this page all you will see of humanity are a couple of distant communities for Iceland's outstanding feature...
...is its lack of urbanisation, indeed lack of people. Of the 360,000 people a third live in the capital and the remainder spread themselves thinly. Words add rather little to the images here, and so captions on this page are limited.
A view compressed by the weight from above
Patches of water match patches of snow
Our road ahead winds its way down to a fjord
A rural community in the north west
Both photographers and geologists flock to Iceland
Thousand foot cliffs in the north west
(more like this at..)
On the north-west coast
Snow retreats, but does not surrender at midsummer
A glacier makes its way down a valley to the sea
An Icelandic danger sign - to
a Vietnamese one
Another shot of the north-west coast
Clouds, water, snow -
this is the landscape of Iceland
Waterfalls as 'sinuous rills'...
...and as surging power
The geology of Iceland, with sharp vertical cliffs in the landscape, produce these spectacular waterfalls -
maybe the best known being at Gullfoss
Trailers...
The next page has
more detail of the landscapes shown here - the Flora of Iceland: mosses, lichens and kelp.
The next page
of the Mosaic Section is headed 'Explanations'.
Or go to the contents of the Mosaic Section.
The last page showed some of the waterfalls of Đà Lạt
Hill country near the town of Moffat in Southern Scotland
To rural country -
...guide to this site