# Bárðarbunga

- **Country:** Iceland
- **Coordinates:** 64.641111, -17.528056
- **Age:** over 10,000 years
- **Text:** Geological features near the Bárðarbunga volcanic system (red outlines -note potential overlap with other volcanic systems is only shown in south). Light violet shows Bárðarbunga associated recent lava fields.
- **Type:** Subglacial volcano/Icelandic stratovolcano
- **Location:** Vatnajökull, Iceland
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- **Other Name:** Veiðivötn
- **Elevation M:** 2000
- **Prominence M:** 550
- **Last Eruption:** 29 August 2014 to 27 February 2015

Sustained seismic activity had been gradually increasing in Bárðarbunga and its associated northern fissure system for seven years starting in 2007 and leading to an eruption towards the end of 2014. This activity had decreased after the Grímsvötn eruption in 2011, but later returned to a similar level as before the eruption. The previous Bárðarbunga eruption was in 1910. There has been frequent volcanic activity outside the glacier to the south-west in the highlands between Vatnajökull and Mýrdalsjökull, and also to the north-east toward Dyngjufjöll .

![Photo of Bárðarbunga](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/B%C3%A1r%C3%B0arbunga_Volcano%2C_September_4_2014_-_15146259395.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bárðarbunga (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)