1) The start of the COVID pandemic in early 2020, especially concerning the mass repatriation flights in March of that year, reminded me so much of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption and its flight disruptions that that was one big way the pandemic sparked my interest in immense and/or profoundly disruptive volcanic eruptions.
2) It's mainland northern Europe that has few volcanoes (one of them being Eifel in Germany, sharing a name with Paris's Eiffel Tower). Mainland southern Europe - especially Italy and Greece - has quite a few volcanoes and much seismic/tectonic activity.
3) Finally, seems to me that geologically and in terms of total area (though most certainly not in terms of population size), Greenland is to Iceland what Australia is to New Zealand.
I would not have said that Greenland has no volcanoes. It has not active volcanoes NOW, but historically it may have had a few. As for European volcanoes - the ones that have been identified are ancient and mostly worn away, much like the Appalachian Mountains on the East Coast.
A few things to say:
1) The start of the COVID pandemic in early 2020, especially concerning the mass repatriation flights in March of that year, reminded me so much of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption and its flight disruptions that that was one big way the pandemic sparked my interest in immense and/or profoundly disruptive volcanic eruptions.
2) It's mainland northern Europe that has few volcanoes (one of them being Eifel in Germany, sharing a name with Paris's Eiffel Tower). Mainland southern Europe - especially Italy and Greece - has quite a few volcanoes and much seismic/tectonic activity.
3) Finally, seems to me that geologically and in terms of total area (though most certainly not in terms of population size), Greenland is to Iceland what Australia is to New Zealand.
I would not have said that Greenland has no volcanoes. It has not active volcanoes NOW, but historically it may have had a few. As for European volcanoes - the ones that have been identified are ancient and mostly worn away, much like the Appalachian Mountains on the East Coast.
Oh fourth grade...