March to May this year between the glacier in Iceland Aiyafeiya de la zone Aiyafala volcanic eruption was once the focus of the world news. Iceland Post July 22 specially designed for the history of Iceland's largest volcano eruption issue a set of stamps. It is worth mentioning that the stamps ash particles using a special process to put stamps, add stamps interesting.
Iceland is Europe's most western countries, located in the central North Atlantic, north near the Arctic Circle, one-eighth of the national territory was covered by glaciers. Iceland also "Arctic Fire Island," said, because almost the entire country are built on volcanic rock. The territory of more than 100 volcanoes, of which about 35 active volcanoes. The glacier area in Aiyafeiya Della volcanic eruption of two stages. March 20, 2010, located in the glacier area of the volcano began erupting for the first time 190 years, but the scale of the eruption was not great. April 14, another volcanic eruption, releasing up to the first 10 to 20 times during the eruption of energy, volcanic ash cloud as the air to spread to most of Europe. The volcanic eruption caused an area of 2.5 billion cubic meters, mainly affects the formation of the volcanic ash cloud to an altitude of over 10,000 m, which is the normal flight altitude. Volcanic ash in silica and other components of aircraft, airframe, engine damage, affect the pilot's attention, and therefore very dangerous. Affected by this, since European countries were forced to take a "World War II" the largest since the grounding of measures, even the U.S. trans-Atlantic flights were suspended for security reasons. Until May 21, volcanoes before was quiet again.
Iceland The stamps were issued without par 3, when the volcanic eruption patterns for the Yiyafala photo: smoke soared, violent eruptions, lava poured, when the reproduction of a spectacular volcanic eruption. With screen printing stamps will be collected when the Yiyafala volcanic eruptions no more than 3 microns in diameter particles of ash placed stamp, called a set-out "ash stamps." Did not personally see Aiyafala spectacular volcanic eruption the collectors also through the stamp collection of a volcanic ash particles as a souvenir.
Iceland was released in 1947, had a set of seven stamps with the theme of volcanoes. In 1975 it issued a set of stamps showing a south coast of Iceland in Vestmannaeyjar Island Yi Erfei Hema scene when the volcanic eruption.
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