Ninety seconds on Svartifoss
A twenty metre fall over a curtain of hexagonal basalt, reached by a graded climb of about forty minutes from the visitor centre. The columns are the form Hallgrímskirkja's facade quotes.
A 20 metre fall in Skaftafell dropping over a curtain of hexagonal basalt columns formed roughly 300,000 years ago. The columned amphitheatre around it runs about 30 metres wide and 15 to 20 metres high.
The columns cooled slowly enough to crack into hexagons, and were formed about 300,000 years ago. Guðjón Samúelsson took the stepped form for the facade of Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík.
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