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  2. List of glaciers in Iceland - Wikipedia

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    The glaciers are relevant enough in Icelandic geography that the four largest are represented blank in most of the maps of the administrative divisions of Iceland smaller than the regions. Iceland is losing ice due to climate change .

  3. Vatnajökull - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Geology of Iceland - Wikipedia

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    All of Iceland's ice capped volcanic plateaus have unique surge-type glaciers, some of the best studied are Brúarjökull, Eyjabakkajökull and Múlajökull. Surge-type glaciers account for less than 1% of glaciers worldwide and are relegated to a narrow climate band with cold marine low arctic conditions. These glaciers exhibit a dual phase ...

  5. Hofsjökull - Wikipedia

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    Map of Hofsjökull glacier showing its named glacial catchments (light grey shading with white outline). Clicking on the map to enlarge it enables mouse over that allows identification of individual named glacial catchments in Iceland.

  6. List of glaciers - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Langjökull - Wikipedia

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    Clicking on the map to enlarge it enables mouse over that allows identification of individual named glacial catchments in Iceland. Langjökull ( Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈlauŋkˌjœːkʏtl̥] ⓘ , Icelandic for "long glacier") is the second largest ice cap in Iceland (870 km 2 (340 sq mi)), [ 1 ] after Vatnajökull .

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