Photo location game · Europe
Iceland landmarks quiz: guess where 21 photos were taken
Play a round of five photos from Iceland, then see all 21 places with their photos, facts and spots on the map.
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Five places from the 21 below, in random order. Each one scores by the distance from your pin to the real spot.
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Where they are
21 on the mapAll 21 places
The northernmost capital of an independent country, marked by Hallgrímskirkja church.
Photo: Jakub Hałun / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Icebergs drifting in a lagoon at the foot of a glacier.
Photo: Jakub Hałun / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A cone-shaped peak beside a waterfall on a windswept peninsula.
Photo: Jakub Hałun / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A jagged black massif rising behind a dark-sand lagoon.
Photo: Gérard Cachon / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A black-sand beach with basalt columns and sea stacks.
Photo: Olga Ernst / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Iceland's second highest peak, a volcano buried under the Vatnajökull ice cap.
Photo: Jakub Hałun / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The rift valley where Iceland's parliament first met in the year 930.
Photo: Andreas Tille / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 60-metre curtain of water on Iceland's south coast, often crowned by a rainbow.
Photo: Gerd Eichmann / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 'Waterfall of the Gods', where Iceland's pagan idols were thrown in the year 1000.
Photo: Superbass / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The glacier-capped volcano where Jules Verne began the Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Photo: Axel Kristinsson from Reykjavík, Iceland / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Iceland's largest ice cap, with glacier tongues spilling into black volcanic sands.
Photo: Justraveling.com / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
One of Iceland's most active volcanoes, once feared as the gateway to hell.
Photo: Hansueli Krapf / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The most powerful waterfall in Europe, 100 metres wide and 44 metres high.
Photo: Spike / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An island half-buried by a 1973 eruption, its harbour saved by spraying seawater on the lava.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A remote caldera lake in the Icelandic highlands where Apollo astronauts trained.
Photo: Ilya Grigorik / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A shallow volcanic lake of pseudocraters and lava pillars in northern Iceland.
Photo: Hansueli Krapf / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Iceland's only piece of land on the Arctic Circle, an island of puffins.
Photo: MosheA / CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
The capital of northern Iceland, a fjord town just below the Arctic Circle.
Photo: Gerd Eichmann / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 'Golden Falls', a two-step waterfall that plunges into a canyon on the Golden Circle.
Photo: Andreas Tille / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A volcanic caldera with a milky-blue crater lake and steaming geothermal fields.
Photo: Andreas Tille / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 60-metre waterfall with a path that lets you walk behind the curtain of water.
Photo: Zoran Kurelić Rabko / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
The places here spread further east to west than north to south: 420 km from Snæfellsjökull to Vestrahorn. Around Skógafoss, in the south, Reynisfjara, Hekla, Heimaey and Seljalandsfoss sit within 55 km.
Here the photos are rated two easy, eleven medium, four hard and four expert. The hard ones are Skógafoss, Goðafoss, Akureyri and Krafla. Thingvellir National Park and Hekla are rated easy. The expert ones are Jökulsárlón, Kirkjufell, Vestrahorn and Reynisfjara. Jökulsárlón is the easiest one to score full points on, with a 150 km radius. Seljalandsfoss is a 60-metre waterfall with a path that lets you walk behind the curtain of water.
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How many places from Iceland can come up?
Iceland has 21 places in the game. Grímsey is the furthest north and Reynisfjara the furthest south.
Which places in Iceland are the hardest to find?
The expert ones are Jökulsárlón, Kirkjufell, Vestrahorn and Reynisfjara. A miss of 693 km beyond the radius costs half the score.
Which photo from Iceland gives the most room for error?
Jökulsárlón. You can be up to 150 km away in any direction and still lose no points.