Heimaey, Iceland: The Volcano Island That Wouldn’t Die
On the night of January 23, 1973, a fissure tore open on the edge of Heimaey, Iceland, and by sunrise a brand-new volcano was pouring lava straight at the town’s harbor. Almost the entire population, roughly 5,000 people, was off the island within hours, ferried across dark water by the local fishing fleet. Five months…