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Fjaðrárgljúfur (, "feather river canyon") is a canyon in south east
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. The Fjaðrá river flows through it. The canyon has steep walls and winding water. It is up to deep and about long. It is located near the Ring Road, not far from the village of
Kirkjubæjarklaustur Kirkjubæjarklaustur ( Icelandic for "church farm cloister", pronounced ; often referred to locally as just Klaustur) is a village in the south of Iceland on the hringvegur (road no. 1 or Ring Road) between Vík í Mýrdal and Höfn. It is part ...
. Its origins dates back to the cold periods of the
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, about two million years ago. The canyon was created by progressive
erosion Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location where it is deposited. Erosion is dis ...
by flowing water from glaciers through the rocks and
palagonite Palagonite is an alteration product from the interaction of water with volcanic glass of chemical composition similar to basalt. Palagonite can also result from the interaction between water and basalt melt. The water flashes to steam on contact w ...
over millennia. A waterfall flows down the western side of the canyon, visible from an observation platform at the end of a one-mile hike up the eastern edge. In 2018, the American alternative rock band
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filmed the music video for their single "
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" at Fjaðrárgljúfur. In May 2019, authorities closed the canyon to visitors after it appeared in the music video for
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's '' I'll Show You''. The resulting stream of visitors threatened to damage the canyon's environment.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fjadrargljufur Canyons and gorges of Iceland