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The roof of the cave is about 10 metres high at the highest point, and the tunnels are around 15m broad at their greatest width. [12] The floor of the lowest and westernmost part of the cave, called Íshellir ("Ice Cave"), is covered in a perpetual sheeting of ice and large ice speleothems are common within the cave. [4]
A partly submerged glacier cave on Perito Moreno Glacier. The ice facade is approximately 60 m high Ice formations in the Titlis glacier cave. A glacier cave is a cave formed within the ice of a glacier. Glacier caves are often called ice caves, but the latter term is properly used to describe bedrock caves that contain year-round ice. [1]
Mother nature is showing off for photographers taking these impressive photos inside the crystal caves in Iceland's Vatnajokull glacier. When the sun rises or sets outside or if you start a fire ...
Víðgelmir has many ice-formations deep within the cave. Víðgelmir ( Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈviðˌcɛlmɪr̥] ) is a lava tube situated in the Hallmundarhraun lava field (formed around 900 AD) in west Iceland , around 2 km southeast of Fljótstunga [ 1 ] farm in Hvítársíða , Borgarfjörður .
Iceland as seen from space, with Vatnajökull appearing as the largest white area to the lower right. Vatnajökull (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈvahtnaˌjœːkʏtl̥] ⓘ, literally "Glacier of Lakes"; sometimes translated as Vatna Glacier in English) is the largest and most voluminous ice cap in Iceland, and the second largest in area in Europe after the Severny Island ice cap of Novaya Zemlya ...
Shooting in a cave is a new experience to me and basically I was pointing the camera into blackness and pushing the button. This ice waterfall shows some illumination on the bottom (somebody was shining a flashlight) and some of the red lava (or earth) above.
Landmannahellir (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈlantˌmanːaˌhɛtlɪr̥]) is a small cave at the foot of the Hellisfjall mountain middle of Suðurland (South Iceland) in the influence area of the volcano Hekla. [1] Landmannahellir is 14 metres (46 ft) long, 8 m (26 ft) wide and has a 4 m (13 ft) ceiling.
Ice caves are a popular destination for visitors to Iceland, with tour operators offering customers the chance to “explore the insides of glaciers” and see the blue color and “stunning ...