Geography Tour to Iceland with Equity School Trip

Visiting the Hellsheidi Geothermal Power Plant and both the Blue Lagoon and the Secret Lagoon, your students will gain an understanding of the technology used to harness the immense geothermal power that radiates out from the ground below Iceland, providing its population with abundant, 100% renewable energy.

Whether you want to focus on human geography aspects, such as renewable energy generation and sustaining a population in an isolated area of the world, or you want to focus on the huge variety of physical geography case studies and locations around the island, we can create a bespoke tour that meets your desired learning outcomes.

As probably one of the finest and most unique locations found anywhere in the world for studying physical geography, your students will be in awe of the huge scale and variety of processes and landforms that can be found within a short drive of the capital city. Whether it's volcanoes, fault lines, river processes, plate tectonics, glacial processes, geothermal heat, coastal erosion, or anything else, be sure to let us know what you'd like to focus on and we'll suggest the perfect locations for your students to visit.

Sitting atop a mantle plume at the boundary of the Eurasian and North American plates on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Iceland provides a phenomenal opportunity to learn about Geology and its processes.

To study igneous processes, your students can study volcanic depositional stratigraphy close to the volcanoes that formed this island and understand how differing eruptions produce different rocks, gasses, and hazards. With a focus on plate tectonics, your students can look at how the two plates are pulling apart and how the subsequent fault zones from this rifting have shaped the various landscapes across the island, including rivers, waterfalls, and volcanoes.

For a rare insight into glacial processes, your students can study glacier distribution and how glacial runoff transports material and sediment from the island's interior to the coast where it will then interact with coastal erosional processes, forming the unique coastal landforms and black beaches.