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Jökulsárlón (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈjœːkʏlsˌaurˌlouːn] ⓘ; translates to "glacial river lagoon") is a large glacial lake in southern part of Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland. Situated at the head of the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, it developed into a lake after the glacier started receding in the late 19th century. The lake ...
German Mütter; like kit with lips rounded: ʏː: kul German schön; like kid with lips rounded: Diphthongs: ai: ætla RP right aiː: æfing pie: au: sjálfur mouth auː: páfi allow: ei: engi pace eiː: heim pay: ɔi: bogi choice ou: hóll goal (short) ouː: kópur goal (long) œy: laust Scottish or Canadian rite œyː: auga ʏi: hugi No ...
[1] The pro glacial lake Jökulsárlón, one of Iceland's best-known tourist attractions, is located on Breiðamerkursandur. The glaciers that formed the sandur are a part of Vatnajökull, and therefore a part of Vatnajökull National Park. In 2017, the borders of the park were changed to include also the plain itself and the Jökulsárlón ...
Fjallsárlón (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈfjalsˌaurˌlouːn] ⓘ) is a glacier lake at the south end of the Icelandic glacier Vatnajökull. Fjallsjökull which is part of the bigger glacier reaches down to the water of the lake and some ice-bergs are drifting by on its surface.
Fjallkonan [ˈfjatl̥ˌkɔːnan], fem. with definite article—lady of the mountain, a figure representing Iceland [citation needed] Frón Icelandic pronunciation:, neu. – old Norse word for land, Iceland [citation needed] Heima á Fróni. Garðarshólmi [ˈkarðar̥sˌhoulmɪ], masc. – Iceland, named after Gardar Svavarsson [1]
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Among Iceland's dialects, this feature is the most common surviving deviation from the standard dialect. Furthermore, in Þingeyjarsýsla and northeast Iceland, the sequences mp nt nk lp lk ðk within a morpheme before a vowel may retain a voiced pronunciation of their first consonant and a postaspirated pronunciation of their second consonant ...
From an ice-dammed marginal lakes such as when an outlet glacier closes off an ice-free side valley. Grænalón was a former example of such a lake. From a supraglacial lake formed by accumulation of melt water in a depression on the surface of the glacier. Such jökulhlaups tend to be small in Iceland; From a subglacial lake.