Skaftafellsjokull

Skaftafellsjokull
Skaftafellsjokull
location	Iceland
Coordinates	64 ° 1 ′  N , 16 ° 55 ′  W Coordinates: 64 ° 1 ′  N , 16 ° 55 ′  W
drainage	Skaftafellsá
Skaftafellsjökull and Hvannadalshnjúkur
Ash plume from the 2011 Grímsvötn eruption over Skaftafellsjökull

The Skaftafellsjökull is a 10 km long and nearly 2.5 km wide glacier of Vatnajökull in Iceland .

location

It is located in the Vatnajökull National Park , more precisely in the former Skaftafell National Park between the Skaftafellsheiði in the west and the Hafrafell in the east.

Drain

Below the glacier there is a glacial lake of different sizes. The small river Skaftafellsá flows out of it and flows into the Skeiðará .

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Traces of Skaftafellsjökull (far right in the picture) in the rock document its shrinking

Web links

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