Andover campus students experience the wonders of iceland

Andover Campus have been reliving the wonders of a recent trip to Iceland where a group of first and second year A level students from across the college spent four amazing days exploring the southern coast.

During their visit, students were inundated with opportunities to take in the breath-taking sites, and found themselves at the very centre of their learning. For attending geography students, the trip was in invaluable experience bringing their learning to life.

Whilst away, students visited hot springs, walked across the bridge between continents from the Eurasian Plate to the North American Plate, attended a Lava show to learn about the 1918 eruption and how the people of Vik have learned to live with the threat of its next eruption and experienced the waterfalls of Skógafoss and Seljalandsfoss along the south coast fed by the Eyjafjallajökull glacier.

The final day of the trip saw students visit the Hellisheidi  geothermal energy plant and carbon capture and storage facility which enables Iceland to be completely self sufficient in meeting it’s energy and hot water needs. The icing on the cake was seeing the crater of the most recent eruption near the small town of Grindavik on the Reykjanes Penninsula and flying over the fresh lava fields.

Lynne Mccandlish, Geography Lecturer, said: “The students had a fabulous time and have memories to talk about for many years to come. They were impeccably behaved throughout and did the college proud!”

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