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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 ...
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]
Jökulsárlón is the largest and most active glacial lake in Iceland. It provides outstanding views of the ice cap Vatnajökull, a vast dome of ice that rises to a height of 900 m (3,000 ft) and shows how the outlet glacier Breiðamerkurjökull calves into the lagoon. Ice lagoon Jökulsárlón at the foot of the Vatnajökull Glacier, 2023
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 ...
Ice caves offer dazzling places to explore, but climate change is taking a toll. Here are some of the most jaw-dropping ice caves, past and present, from around the world.
Mýrdalsjökull (pronounced [ˈmirˌtalsˌjœːkʏtl̥] ⓘ, Icelandic for "(the) mire dale glacier" or "(the) mire valley glacier") is an ice cap on the top of the Katla volcano in the south of Iceland. It is to the north of the town of Vík í Mýrdal and to the east of the smaller ice cap Eyjafjallajökull.