ICELAND

ICELAND / ÍSLAND

Landscapes.
Snæfellsjökull Glacier and Volcano.
First stamp in a set of 4, issued on 06.01.1970.
Face value: 1 Icelandic króna.
Printing: photogravure.
Print: 3,000,000 copies.
Size: 36 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 435.
- Michel No. 434.
- Scott No. 412.
- StampWorld No. 435.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 465.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 387.

Snæfellsjökull is a 700,000-year-old glacier-capped stratovolcano in western Iceland. It is situated on the most western part of the Snæfellsnes peninsula. Its elevation is 1,446 m (4,744 ft). The stratovolcano, which is the only large central volcano in its part of Iceland, has many pyroclastic cones on its flanks. Upper-flank craters produced intermediate to felsic materials, while lower-flank craters produced basaltic lava flows. Several holocene eruptions have originated from the summit crater and have produced felsic material. Snæfellsjökull serves as the entrance to the subterranean journey in Jules Verne's classic science fiction novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864).

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Thanks to Giovanna Goric for his contribution.