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An ice cap is a mass of glacial ice that covers less than 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi) of land area covering a highland area and they feed outlet glaciers. [4]: 52 Many Icelandic ice caps and glaciers lie above volcanoes, such as Grímsvötn and Bárðarbunga, which lie under the largest ice cap, Vatnajökull.
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 ...
Abstracted geological map of approximate Icelandic glacier catchments and associated features present in the 21st century. Glaciers shown are generally more than 5 km 2 (1.9 sq mi), noting that size varies from year to year and many in the north are remnant glaciers from last century as maximum recent glaciation was about 1890 in Iceland. Some ...
A map of Iceland, showing major towns, rivers, lakes and glaciers. Translated from a map on the Greek Wikipedia (located here). Date: 23 June 2007: Source: Own work, based on File:Map of Iceland el.svg created by el:user:Αντιγόνη: Author: Max Naylor
The picture shows Arnarfell hiðmikla (Great Eagle Mountain) in the middle, Múlajökull glacier to the left and Þjórsárjökull glacier to the right. Hofsjökull ( Icelandic : " temple glacier", Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈhɔfsˌjœːkʏtl̥] ⓘ ) is the third largest ice cap in Iceland after Vatnajökull and Langjökull and covers the ...
The glaciers of Venezuela are located in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Mérida. In 1910, maps made by the explorer Alfredo Jahn showed the Sierra Nevada glaciers covering about 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres). An ice trade at that time saw ice men or hieleros transporting glacier ice by mule or on foot to Mérida for sale, a six hour ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Pages in category "Glaciers of Iceland" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of ...
Jökulsárlón, located on the edge of Vatnajökull National Park. Vatnajökull National Park was established on 7 June 2008. When established, the park covered an area of 12,000 km 2, but with later additions of Lakagígar, Langisjór, Krepputunga [ˈkʰrɛhpʏˌtʰuŋka] and Jökulsárlón (including its surrounding areas) it now covers 14,967 km 2 or approximately 14% of Iceland, making it ...