Hagavatn
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| Eastern part of the lake, in the background Hagafell and the glacier tongue, in the foreground the outflow of the lake. | ||
| Geographical location | icelandic highlands | |
| Drain | Farid | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 28 '42 " N , 20 ° 17' 8" W | |
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The Hagavatn is a glacial edge lake in the Icelandic highlands , in the municipality of Bláskógabyggð . The lake is fed by a branch of the Langjökull , the Eystri-Hagafellsjökull. The outflow runs through the Sandvatn and then divides between the Hvítá and the Túngufljót.
Origin and development
With the formation of the Lambahraun lava field in prehistoric times, the meltwater runoff from the Eystri-Hagafellsjökull glacier was restricted by the north-east-south-west running valley and the meltwater built up to the Hagavatn. After its creation, the dammed lake emptied through various gaps in the Jarlhettur mountain range, which ran from northeast to southwest . During the work of the cartographer Björn Gunnlaugsson in 1834 and 1835, the first drainage channel ( Mosaskard ) had already been replaced by a location further north ( Fagridalur ).
A footbridge over the outflow of the lake was destroyed in 1999 when the glacier tongue pushed into the lake.
hut
In 1942 a hut was first built on Hagavatn, in 1986 it was renovated. The building with twelve beds is located about two kilometers from the lake and is part of Ferðafélag Íslands . A 15 km long slope, the Hagavatnsvegur, leads from the highland passage Kjölur to the hut.
literature
- John Wright: The Hagavatn Gorge . In: The Geographical Journal . Vol. 86, no. 3. (Sep., 1935), pp. 218-230.
- JH Reynolds: Burst of a Glacial Dam in Iceland . In: The Geographical Journal . Vol. 75, no. 3. (Mar., 1930), pp. 241-243.
- FG Hannell, IY Ashwell: The Recession of an Icelandic Glacier . In: The Geographical Journal . Vol. 125, No. 1. (Mar., 1959), pp. 84-88.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hannell, Ashwell, p. 1
