A distinctive black church...

stands in isolation at Búðir on the storm-beaten southern coast of the Snæfellsnes peninsula, painted and sealed with pitch to withstand the harsh elements.

Snæfellsjökull is the dominant stratovolcano at the western tip of the Snæfellsnes peninsula, rising to 1,446 meters (4,744 feet), and the fabled entrance to the center of the Earth according to Jules Verne.

View of glacier-capped Snæfellsjökull from the air on my return flight from Iceland.