Bárðarbunga volcano raging under magnificent Northern Lights – Video Clip

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 Bárðarbunga 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 Bárðarbunga volcano is in a very remote location and lies 225 km (122 miles) in a straight line northeast from Reykjavík.  There 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, Reykjavík,  to the Bárðarbunga volcano.

The golfcourses mentioned here are by no means in close proximity to the erruption in Bárðarbunga.  But they are the closest ones to the volcano.

The beautiful Jaðars golf course in Akureyri (an 18 hole one) is about 100 km (62 miles) away from the eruption and the Krossadals golf course in Mývatnssveit is even closer to the eruption or approximately 80 km (49 miles) and the Katla golf course in Húsavík, which considers itself to be the Whale watching capital of the world,   is about 134 km (83 miles) away.

Actually the  Bárðarbunga volcano is named after an old norse Wiking, one of the earliest settlers in Iceland Bárður Bjarnason, later called Gnúpa-Bárður, from the Sognefjord in West Norway. Bárður came ashore near Húsavík and settled in the valley still bearing his name, Bárðardalur around the year 900. Several years later Bárður sent some of his sons—he had nine—to check the land in South Iceland. They made the return journey over the still uninhabited highlands near Bárðarbunga and through the pass Vonarskarð. The path from North to South Iceland is still named Bárðargata. After his sons returned from the journey to his farm Lundarbrekka in Bárðardalur valley and told him that the vegetation was much better in the south, he moved and founded the farm Gnúpur near Núpsstaður just east of Kirkjubæjarklaustur. In Landnáma, the book of the Icelandic settlement, Bárður’s wife’s name is not mentioned but the names of his nine sons were: Sigmundur, Þorsteinn, Egill, Gísli, Nefsteinn, Þorbjörn krum, Hjör, Þorgrímur and Björn.

Here you can see a beautiful video clip of Bárðarbunga volcano raging under the Aurora borealis in the North of Iceland CLICK HERE: 

Bárðarbunga is a subglacial stratovolcano located under the ice cap of Vatnajökull glacier within the Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland.

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 Hvannadalshnjúkur.

The caldera is about 80 square kilometres, up to 10 km wide and about 700 metres (2,300 ft) deep.

Swarms of earthquakes were first detected August 16th by Bárðarbunga and  by August 29th everything had turned into a fullblown lava eruption, which as of today (October 5th 2014) is still ongoing.

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 Bárðarbunga volcano under the Northern Lights could be captured.