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Access to an iconic Icelandic tourist attraction is now “mostly” submerged in lava, according to The Iceland Monitor, after the Reykjanes Peninsula volcano erupted for the seventh time in under 12 months.

The eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula started with little warning at 11:14 p.m. (2314 GMT) Wednesday and created a fissure around 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) long. The activity is estimated to be considerably smaller than the previous eruption in August,

A volcano erupted in southern Iceland, near the town of Grindavík and the Blue Lagoon spa, marking the region's seventh eruption in a year.