What has a video clip on a volcano erupting under beautiful Northern Lights to do on a page on golf in Iceland? Nothing, alas to mention that there are at least 3 beautiful golf courses in the vicinity of B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano, where you can play golf if you want to combine three if not four things in Iceland: play golf, watch the Aurora borealis, see a volcano errupting and perhaps also go whale watching.<\/p>\n
Well, the B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano is in a very remote location\u00a0and lies 225 km (122 miles) in a straight line northeast<\/strong> from Reykjav\u00edk. \u00a0There is no road to the volcano following that straigtht line, this is only to give you an idea of the distance from the capitol of Iceland, Reykjav\u00edk, \u00a0to the B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano.<\/p>\n The golfcourses mentioned here are by no means in close proximity to the erruption in B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga. \u00a0But they are the closest ones to the volcano.<\/p>\n The beautiful Ja\u00f0ars golf course in Akureyri (an 18 hole one) is about 100 km (62 miles) away from the eruption and the Krossadals golf course in M\u00fdvatnssveit is even closer to the eruption or approximately 80 km (49 miles) and the Katla golf course in H\u00fasav\u00edk, which considers itself to be the Whale watching capital of the world, \u00a0 is about 134 km (83 miles) away.<\/p>\n Actually the \u00a0B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano is named after an old norse Wiking, one of the earliest\u00a0settlers in Iceland B\u00e1r\u00f0ur Bjarnason<\/strong>, later called Gn\u00fapa-B\u00e1r\u00f0ur,<\/strong> from the Sognefjord in West Norway.\u00a0B\u00e1r\u00f0ur came ashore near H\u00fasav\u00edk and settled in the valley still bearing his name, B\u00e1r\u00f0ardalur around the year 900.\u00a0Several years later B\u00e1r\u00f0ur sent some of his sons\u2014he had nine\u2014to check the land in South Iceland. They made the return journey over the still uninhabited highlands near B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga and through the pass Vonarskar\u00f0. The path from North to South Iceland is still named B\u00e1r\u00f0argata.\u00a0After his sons returned from the journey to his farm Lundarbrekka in B\u00e1r\u00f0ardalur valley and told him that the vegetation was much better in the south, he moved and founded the farm Gn\u00fapur near N\u00fapssta\u00f0ur just east of Kirkjub\u00e6jarklaustur.\u00a0In Landn\u00e1ma, the book of the Icelandic settlement, B\u00e1r\u00f0ur\u2019s wife\u2019s name is not mentioned but the names of his nine sons were: Sigmundur, \u00deorsteinn, Egill, G\u00edsli, Nefsteinn, \u00deorbj\u00f6rn krum, Hj\u00f6r, \u00deorgr\u00edmur and Bj\u00f6rn.<\/p>\n Here you can see a beautiful video clip of B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano raging under the Aurora borealis in the North of Iceland\u00a0CLICK HERE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga is a subglacial stratovolcano located under the ice cap of Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier within the Vatnaj\u00f6kull National Park in Iceland.<\/p>\n It rises to 2,009 metres (6,591 ft) above sea level, making it the second highest mountain in Iceland, about 101 metres (331 ft) lower than Hvannadalshnj\u00fakur.<\/p>\n The caldera is about 80 square kilometres, up to 10 km wide and about 700 metres (2,300 ft) deep.<\/p>\n Swarms of earthquakes were first detected August 16th by B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga and \u00a0by August 29th everything had turned into a fullblown lava eruption, which as of today (October 5th 2014) is still ongoing.<\/p>\n This being the time of year (around the equinoxes) where there is high auroral activity it comes to no surprise that these beautiful moments of the errupting B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano under the Northern Lights could be captured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What has a video clip on a volcano erupting under beautiful Northern Lights to do on a page on golf in Iceland? Nothing, alas to mention that there are at least 3 beautiful golf courses in the vicinity of B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano, where you can play golf if you want to combine three if not four things in Iceland: play golf, watch the Aurora borealis, see a volcano errupting and perhaps also go whale watching. Well, the B\u00e1r\u00f0arbunga volcano is in a very remote location\u00a0and lies 225 km (122 miles) in a straight line northeast from Reykjav\u00edk. \u00a0There is no road to the volcano following that straigtht line, this is only Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":1394,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}