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Icelandic volcano spews ash, smoke and steam A dense ash cloud from the volcano Grimsvotn blew toward Scotland on Monday, causing airlines to cancel flights and raising fears of a repeat of last year’s huge travel disruptions.
May 25, 2011
Smoke billows from the Grimsvotn volcano, under the Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland. The Icelandic volcano, which disrupted hundreds of flights in northern Europe, is no longer spewing out ash and the eruption seems to have halted, weather officials said Wednesday.
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May 25, 2011
People line up at the Air Berlin ticket counter at Tegel airport in Berlin after all flights were canceled because of volcanic ash in the skies over northern Germany.
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May 25, 2011
People sit on the floor after all flights were canceled because of volcanic ash in the skies over northern Germany, at Tegel airport in Berlin.
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May 25, 2011
Passengers sleep at Tegel airport in Berlin after all flights were canceled by volcanic ash.
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May 24, 2011
A dead lamb lies covered in ash near Kirkjubaearklaustur 162 miles from ReykjavÌk, Iceland, after the Grimsvotn volcano began erupting on Saturday, sending clouds of ash high into the air that have then been carried toward the European continent on the wind.
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May 24, 2011
A horse's eyes water amid clouds of ash near Kirkjubaearklaustur 162 miles from Reykjavík, Iceland, after the Grimsvotn volcano began erupting on Saturday.
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May 24, 2011
Farmers check on their animals near Kirkjubaearklaustur.
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May 23, 2011
A member of a rescue team checks on a farmer near Kirkjubaearklaustur. Iceland’s main airport, Keflavik, and domestic airport Reykjavik both reopened Monday after being closed for almost 36 hours.
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May 22, 2011
Tourists leave the Islandia Hotel in Nupur as ash continues to pour out of the erupting Grimsvotn volcano.
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May 22, 2011
A farm is covered in an ash cloud in Thorvaldsstadir, southeast Iceland.
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May 22, 2011
Sheep farmers try to round up a flock as they walk through a cloud of ash.
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May 22, 2011
A dead bird lies on Highway One near the town of Kirkjubaejarklaustur in southeast Iceland.
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May 22, 2011
A sheep is seen at a farm during the ash fallout.
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May 22, 2011
Smoke billows from the Grimsvotn, Iceland's most active volcano.
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May 21, 2011
A cloud of smoke and ash is seen over the Grimsvotn volcano on Iceland on Saturday. The cloud rising up from Grimsvotn as a result of the eruption was seen first time around 1900 GMT and in less than an hour it had reached an altitude of 6.8 miles," according to the Icelandic meterological institute.
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May 21, 2011
Smoke plumes from the Grimsvotn volcano, which lies under the Vatnajokull glacier, about 120 miles east of the capital, Rejkjavik, which began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004.
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Ash covers the ground outside a gas station in Kirkjubaejarklaustur, Reykjavik on Sunday. Iceland's most active volcano erupted on Saturday, hurling a plume of ash and smoke far into the sky, which aviation officials were closely monitoring after another volcano shut European airspace for days last year. Authorities banned flights close to the Grimsvotn volcano but an official said the eruption was not expected to affect European airline traffic at least for the next 24 hours.
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May 22, 2011
A Swiss tourist stands on Highway One, just outside the ash fallout zone in Reykjavik. Grimsvotn erupted on Saturday, hurling a plume of ash and smoke far into the sky, which aviation officials were closely monitoring after another volcano shut European airspace for days last year.
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May 22, 2011
Icelandic Photographer Robert Reynisson covers the volcano eruption at the edge of the ash fallout zone in Reykjavik. Authorities banned flights close to the Grimsvotn volcano but an official said the eruption was not expected to affect European airline traffic at least for the next 24 hours.
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May 22, 2011
A policeman gives directions at a roadblock at the town of Kirkjubaejarklaustur, Iceland, following the eruption of Grimsvotn volcano.
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May 22, 2011
A government scientist truck is seen parked outside a gas station in Kirkjubaejarklaustur, Iceland.
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May 22, 2011
Footprints are seen on a surface of ash outside a gas station in Kirkjubaejarklaustur, Reykjavik.
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May 21, 2011
Smoke rises from the Grimsvotn volcano, Saturday in Reykjavik, Iceland. Iceland's most active volcano has started erupting, scientists said, just over a year after another eruption on the North Atlantic island shut down European air traffic for days.
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