Route 1 rings the whole of Iceland in 1,346 km, a single road past black beaches and the tongues of glaciers. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The route is verified against the real road, and your poster ships straight away.

Make it yours: 11 art styles, 10 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

What you get

Paper

200 gsm matte art paper

Print

Giclée, 300 dpi

Frames

Black, white or natural timber, ready to hang

Preview

The preview is the finished poster. We print the design you approve in the preview, with no proof to wait on.

The route

The road runs a single loop around the whole island, finished in 1974 when a new bridge over the Skeiðará glacial plain closed the last gap, opened to mark eleven hundred years since the first Norse settlement. Vatnajökull, the ice cap the road skirts on its eastern stretch, holds around three thousand cubic kilometres of ice, more than any other ice cap in Europe, and covers roughly seven percent of the country.

At Reynisfjara the road passes a black sand beach backed by hexagonal basalt columns up to twenty metres tall, the same rock that shapes cliffs and sea stacks along much of the south coast. Iceland has more people than sheep these days too, a recent reversal of the old joke about the country, its flock down to around 365,000 against a population that has now passed 400,000.

Made for someone who drove it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Amalfi Coast, Atlantic Ocean Road and Grossglockner High Alpine Road.

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