With airlines and holidaymakers nervously eyeing eruptions in
Iceland,
it's time to look more closely at volcanoes.
Here at akg-images, we've always been interested in magma,
so it's no surprise our collection has so many images - both
historical and modern -
of erupting and dormant volcanoes. We present a selection...
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An eruption on Stromboli
Photo: akg-images / De Agostini Picture Library
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P-H de Valencienne's 1813 painting of Vesuvius erupting
Photo: akg-images
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A wall painting from Pompii showing Bacchus at Vesuvius
Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing
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A view of Cuicocha in Ecuador, 2007
Photo: Aurélia Frey / akg-images
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Mount Etna erupting in June 2000...
Photo: akg-images / Cordia Schlegelmilch
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... and again in 2001...
Photo: akg-images / Alfio Garozzo
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... more 2001 action from Etna...
Photo: akg-images / Alfio Garozzo
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Monte dei Porri
Photo: akg-images / Alfio Garozzo
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Mount Fuki in 1905...
Photo: akg-images / Waldemar Abegg
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... and in a Hokusai woodcut from the 19th Century
Photo: akg-images / RIA Novosti
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Cortez's soldiers witness a volcano in Mexico
Photo: akg-images / Bildarchiv Steffens
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Vesuvius at the time of its last great eruption in 1944
Photo: akg-images / Voller Ernst
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Joseph Wright of Derby's dramatic depiction of Vesuvius...
Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing
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... and Scipione Compagno's depiction of the 1631 eruption
Photo: akg-images
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Vesuvius erupts at night
Photo: akg-images
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It all looks so peaceful on Stromboli
Photo: Hervé Champollion / akg-images
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An aquatint of the volcano at Cotopaxi, 1810-1815
Photo: akg-images
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A fake volcano in honour of Ferdinand III of Tuscany in 1791
Photo: akg-images / Rabatti - Domingie
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Volcanoes in Turbaco, 1813
Photo: akg-images
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To end, one of Iceland's volcanoes with a difficult name: Snaefellsjökull,
in 1850
Photo: akg-images
