Reynisdrangar
Sign in to savethumb|Reynisdrangar captured from Reynisfjall thumbnail|Landscape with the sea stacks in the background. thumb|Basalt columns on the beach at Reynisfjara. Reynisdrangar () are the basalt sea stacks situated under the mountain Reynisfjall near the village of Vík í Mýrdal in southern Iceland. It is framed by a black sand beach that was ranked in 1991 as one of the ten most beautiful non-tropical beaches in the world. In 2021 Reynisfjara was rated the sixth best beach in the world.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in isle_region, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Columnar basalts of Iceland, Geomyths and South Iceland Seismic Zone.
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thumb|Reynisdrangar captured from Reynisfjall thumbnail|Landscape with the sea stacks in the background. thumb|Basalt columns on the beach at Reynisfjara. Reynisdrangar () are the basalt sea stacks situated under the mountain Reynisfjall near the village of Vík í Mýrdal in southern Iceland. It is framed by a black sand beach that was ranked in 1991 as one of the ten most beautiful non-tropical beaches in the world. In 2021 Reynisfjara was rated the sixth best beach in the world.
== Legend == Legend says that the stacks originated when two trolls dragged a three-masted ship to land unsuccessfully and at the break of day turned into needles of rock.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Reynisdrangar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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