Fjadrargljufur Canyon

Fjadrargljufur Canyon sits in southeast Iceland near the village of Kirkjubaejarklaustur, cut roughly 100 meters deep and about 2 kilometers long through rock and palagonite, a volcanic tuff, by the Fjadra river's winding, steep-walled course. The canyon's carving traces back to the cold periods of the Ice Age, beginning around two million years ago, as meltwater from glaciers progressively eroded the palagonite and surrounding rock over that span, with a waterfall descending its western wall today. The name Fjadrargljufur translates to feather river canyon. In May 2019, the canyon was temporarily closed to visitors after appearing in a music video drew an overflow of tourists whose foot traffic threatened to damage its terrain. This entity documents Fjadrargljufur Canyon specifically as a geological formation, a gorge cut through volcanic palagonite by roughly two million years of glacial meltwater erosion.