South Coast Tours & Tickets

The South Coast contains Skaftafell, where the fastest-flowing glacier in Iceland, Vatnajökull, calves into a proglacial lake filled with icebergs.

Seljalandsfoss is one of the few waterfalls in Iceland where you can walk behind the cascading water without getting completely soaked.

The black sand beaches of the South Coast were formed by volcanic eruptions and lava flows, making them geologically young by European standards.

The 1973 eruption on Heimaey Island off the South Coast was stopped partly by spraying seawater onto the advancing lava flow—a first in volcanology.

South Coast towns like Vík are located on one of Iceland's most dangerous stretches of coastline, where Atlantic swells can exceed 30 feet.

The South Coast is home to puffins from April to August, with colonies nesting in sea cliffs near villages like Vík and on islands offshore.