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    annual accuracy the mass balance of Mýrdalsjökull.: 572  Such techniques allowed it to be determined for Mýrdalsjökull that it is the summer temperatures...
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    one of the smaller ice caps of Iceland, north of Skógar and west of Mýrdalsjökull. The ice cap covers the caldera of a volcano with a summit elevation...
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    Mýrdalsjökull are also monitored. In folklore, the witch named Katla is held responsible for causing the jökulhlaup (outburst) of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier...
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    between the volcanoes Katla and Eyjafjallajökull. Part of the larger Mýrdalsjökull glacier, Sólheimajökull is a prominent and popular tourist location...
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    Alongside the volcanoes exist numerous glaciers such as Vatnajökull, Mýrdalsjökull, and Eyjafjallajökull. Basalt columns and black sand beaches are examples...
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    4WD vehicle. It is on the southern Fjallabak road next to the glacier Mýrdalsjökull. The road is usually wet and sometimes completely flooded, making the...
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    winds between the mountains. The valley is closed in between glaciers, Mýrdalsjökull being at the rear end of the valley. This leads to an especially warm...
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    the east and Múlakvísl in the west. Both rivers carry water from the Mýrdalsjökull glacier to the sea. Mýrdalssandur has a 35 km (22 mi)-long coast line...
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    to the pass Fimmvörðuháls between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull. It goes down to Þórsmörk on the other side and continues as the Laugavegur...
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  • Smyrlabjörg, the Svínafellsjökull glacier near Skaftafell, and the Mýrdalsjökull glacier near Vik on Höfðabrekkuheiði. Filming also occurred at the harbor...
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    2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull. Vík lies directly south of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier, which itself is on top of the Katla volcano. Katla has not...
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    caps of Iceland, situated to the north of Skógar and to the west of Mýrdalsjökull, is Icelandic for "glacier of Eyjafjöll", in turn "glacier of island...
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  • have disappeared up to 2019.: 27  Vatnajökull Langjökull Hofsjökull Mýrdalsjökull Drangajökull Eyjafjallajökull Tungnafellsjökull Þórisjökull Eiríksjökull...
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    from Dyrhólaey is broad: To the north is to be seen the big glacier Mýrdalsjökull. To the east, the black lava columns of the Reynisdrangar come out of...
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  • Thumbnail for 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull
    Situated to the north of Skógar and to the west of the larger ice cap Mýrdalsjökull, Eyjafjallajökull covers the caldera of a volcano 1,666 m (5,466 ft)...
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    Thor; Larsen, Gudrun; Sigmarsson, Olgeir (2007). "Survival of the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap through the Holocene thermal maximum: evidence from sulphur...
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    including the volcano Þórðarhyrna. It lies between the glaciers of Mýrdalsjökull and Vatnajökull, in an area of fissures that run in a southwest to northeast...
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    sheet and the Scandinavian ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum. Mýrdalsjökull is subject to large jökulhlaups when the subglacial volcano Katla erupts...
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  • Vatnajökull glacier, the Svínafellsjökull glacier near Skaftafell, and the Mýrdalsjökull glacier near Vik used as the location for the Fist of the First Men...
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    cairns pass") is the area between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull in southern Iceland. The route between Skógar and Thórsmörk goes through...
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    glaciers in the Highland are Vatnajökull, Langjökull, Eyjafjallajökull, Mýrdalsjökull, and Hofsjökull, with multiple outlet glaciers. Many glaciers occur...
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  • Thumbnail for 1918 eruption of Katla
    an active volcano in the south-east of Iceland. It is covered by the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap. Over 300 basaltic eruptions may have occurred in the Holocene...
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    Katla is an important caldera and central volcano situated under the Mýrdalsjökull glacier cap in the southern part of Iceland's East Volcanic Zone. 150–200...
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  • 24°N 18.37°W / 64.24; -18.37 (Eldgjá) 934 6 Also known as Katla, Mýrdalsjökull A large eruptive fissure of the Katla volcano. Eldvörp–Svartsengi 230...
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    banks of the river where the glacier run had left them behind (see also Mýrdalsjökull). The peak water release from a lake that develops around the Grímsvötn...
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    Mýrdalssandur. The river has a glacier flow which draws its water from the Mýrdalsjökull, mainly through the glacier tongue Kötlujökull. The river's floods are...
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    Icelandic subglacial lakes are located beneath the Vatnajökull and Mýrdalsjökull ice caps, where melting from hydrothermal activity creates permanent...
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    point 300 m below sea level. Nowhere in Iceland, with the exception of Mýrdalsjökull glacier, does more precipitation fall or more water drain to the sea...
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    that base when it radioed its last position. The wreck was sighted on Mýrdalsjökull glacier and at least three of the nine men crew were initially reported...
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    Hjaltadalsjökul Hofsjökull Kaldaklofsjökull Kambsjökull Myrkárjökull Mýrdalsjökull Snæfellsjökull Sólheimajökull Tindfjallajökull Torfajökull Tungnafellsjökull...
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