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MT6260âIceland, Life Atop the Caldron

Visitors create their own heat at a thermal zone at the Krafla caldera in northern Iceland. Lava flow from the 1980s (upper left) still mars the landscape.

Read more about Iceland in “Life Atop a Cauldron” in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic Traveler.

Photograph by Brooks Walker

Iceland Photo Gallery

Iceland Photo Gallery from the April 2011 issue of National Geographic Traveler.

December 8, 2010

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