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Islândia - Vatnajökull (8 Fotos)

 
Foto 1357: Vatnajokull

Vatnajokull, Vatnajökull, Islândia, Europa (Nickname Christophe)

Islândia Vatnajökull, the glacier largest of Iceland, covers 8% of the surface of the country. It with the size of Corsica, it is larger than all the other joined together glaciers of Europe, but it has another characteristic: its Western part is located on volcanic cracks of the médio-Atlantic rift.

It is the largest glacier of Europe. The thickness of ice is 1 km by place.

It covers with the very active volcanos whose subglacial eruptions cause débacles devastators.

     
 

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