Breiðamerkursandur
The Breiðamerkursandur is a large sander on the southeast coast of Iceland .
It lies between Öræfi in the west and Suðursveit in the east. The Breiðamerkursandur is covered with coarse sand deposited here by the glaciers and glacier rivers. There was only a very narrow strip of land between Breiðamerkurjökull and the coast when the glacier was at its greatest extent around 1800. Mighty moraines on the sander show how far the ice reached. The glacier tongue dug deep into the porous soil and formed a deep and extensive lake, the Jökulsárlón , Iceland's deepest body of water at 248 m. The outflow is the Jökulsá á Breiðamerkursandi , which was once a major obstacle. Before the bridge was built in 1967, there was a ferry with a risky crossing. The Breiðamerkursandur is the main breeding area of the great sku in Iceland.
history
The Breiðá farm, where Kári Sölmundarson and Hildigunnur Starkaðardóttir lived, stood in the western part of the Sander. They are reported in the Njálssaga . As the glacier expanded, it covered the farmstead and the lands of everyone who lived there. Now you don't know where they were.
On June 25, 2017, the Jökulsárlón and parts of the Fjallsárlón and Breiðamerkursandur were placed under protection by the Environment Minister Björt Ólafsdóttir as part of the Vatnajökull National Park , which is enlarged by a further 189 km².
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jökulsárlón friðlýst: Óttast ekki málsókn. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .