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![Eyjafjallajökull](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull.jpeg/300px-Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull.jpeg)
Eyjafjallajökull is one of the smaller Icelandic glaciers, located north of Skógar and west of the larger glacier Mýrdalsjökull. The ice cap of the glacier covers a volcano, which has erupted relatively frequently since the Ice Age. The last eruption was from 1821 to 1823, causing a fatal glacier run. The crater of the volcano has a diameter of 3-4 km and the glacier covers an area of about 100 km².