Its last eruption was in 1994, and traces of the black lava can still be seen.
The landscape has remained virtually unchanged since the last eruption, thanks to minimal rainfall and government protection.
And dead ahead is the gaping cone of Vesuvius, long tongues of lava from the last eruption (1944) visible even from here.
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We saw the results of that in May last year following the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano.
Cleveland is also "very active, " having last had a large eruption in 2001.
As we all know, a volcano eruption over Iceland last week and has disrupted trans-Atlantic air travel.
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When the volcano last erupted in 1821, the eruption lasted on and off for two years, Gylfason said.
There is a certain charm about a place where islands are created by council decree rather than by volcanic eruption or coastal erosion but perhaps the last word belongs with Olivier Mesnil, a French tourist who was staying on Island Roy when I paid a visit.
For most of last year, the online scrapbooking site was racing to keep up with a growth eruption that took global user visits to its website to 48 million in December, up from 9 million a year earlier, according to research firm comScore Inc.
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Natural disasters such as the eruption of the volcano in Iceland or the oil spill on the Gulf coast last year make us seriously consider the fragility of human strength against nature.
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As the eruption of Mount Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland stranded thousands of travelers at airports across Europe last month and again this, the intricacy and fragility of our tightly-wound, globally interconnected world was once again on display.
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