Fjallsárlón
Sign in to saveAlso known as Fjallsarlon
Fjallsárlón () is a glacier lagoon at the south end of the Icelandic glacier Vatnajökull. Fjallsjökull which is part of the bigger glacier reaches down to the water of the lake and some ice-bergs are drifting by on its surface.
Key facts
- Lake.name
- Fjallsárlón
- Lake.image
- Fjallsárlón Iceland 2016 06.jpg
- Lake.location
- Iceland
- Lake.lake_type
- periglacial
- Lake.basin_countries
- Iceland
- Lake.pushpin_map
- Iceland
- Lake.pushpin_map_alt
- Location of Fjallsárlón in Iceland.
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- proglacial lake
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður
- Area
- 4
- Image
- Fjallsárlón01(ms).jpg
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Fjallsárlón
- located in protected area
- Vatnajökull National Park
- basin country
- Iceland
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- See also
- References
Fjallsárlón () is a glacier lagoon at the south end of the Icelandic glacier Vatnajökull. Fjallsjökull which is part of the bigger glacier reaches down to the water of the lake and some ice-bergs are drifting by on its surface.
The glacier calving into the lagoon is a part of Vatnajökull National Park and the better known glacier lake Jökulsárlón is not far from there. From the glacier lake Breiðárlón a little river flows into the Fjallsárlón.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fjallsárlón” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations