By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Find out more here. Skip to main content. Online Chat. Contact Us. Hekla Iceland Travel Team October 21, How many times has Hekla volcano erupted? Things to do around Hekla Volcano Hekla is a popular destination for hikers. Things to see around Hekla Volcano Surrounding the Hekla area are other interesting places and natural wonders to see, for example Thjorsardalur valley, in which are several beautiful waterfalls and fascinating rock formations.
Image Gallery. An active volcano for centuries, the mountain Hekla is one of the most famous in the world. Hekla is a stratovolcano, located near the southern end of the eastern rift zone in Iceland.
The whole mountain ridge of Hekla is about 40 km long. The mountain is about 1, m high. During historical times, frequent large explosive eruptions have deposited tephra throughout Iceland, which provide time markers used to date eruptions from other Icelandic volcanoes.
Old tales tell of the belief that the souls of the condemned travelled through Hekla's crater on their way to Hell.
Others say that the witches met with the devil on its top. It has been compared with Brocken and Vesuvius and the trio were thought to be the gateways down to Hell. They called the man van Hekkenfeld. This, however, was not the first time it had done so; undiscovered by man, it had contributed to a third of all volcanic ash across northern Europe for the past seven millenia.
It would not significantly erupt again until , although it had been recorded going off several times in between; one of the most notorious things about Hekla is its unpredictability, sometimes exploding within a decade of its last eruption, sometimes laying dormant for nearly a century. Further serious eruptions occurred in and with international consequences, but none as significant as the one that began in Lava bombs weighing over 20 kilograms 44 pounds landed 32 kilometres away; some as large as 50 square metres square feet were thrown a kilometre.
It took just 52 two hours before the enormous cloud of ash was covering Helsinki. It would be thirteen months before the eruption stopped, ebbing and flowing with power, but constantly pouring ash into the atmosphere, poisoning crops and livestock. It is likely many died of respiratory problems as a result, but Hekla even directly killed one person. A scientist filming the great lava flows from the crater, some of which were 15 metres 49 feet tall, was struck by a block of lava.
Hekla erupted again in for two months, but since has only gone off for a few days at a time, in , , and Though the one seemed inconsequential, it was later discovered that it proved that Hekla was even more frightening than was already thought.
The remains of a pyroclastic flow, the most dangerous element of an eruption, where searing ash and rock travel at enormous speeds and raze all they meet, had occured for over five kilometres three miles. In spite of its volatile nature, Hekla can still be considered a safe place to visit; there are hiking opportunities all around it, and some tour operators embark in super jeeps journeys to its slopes. Get the ad-free version! Why is there advertising on this site?
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