{"id":1583,"date":"2013-04-09T12:11:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migrate.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2019-12-01T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T17:29:12","slug":"iceland-march-11-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/iceland-march-11-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland: March 11, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Skaftafell <\/a>
Skaftafell National Park measures about 4807 km2 (2884 mi\u00b2), making it Iceland’s second largest national park. It is home to the valley Mors\u00e1rdalur, the mountain Krist\u00ednartindar and the glacier Skaftafellsj\u00f6kull (a spur of the Vatnaj\u00f6kull ice cap). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Skaftafell <\/a>
Skaftafell National Park measures about 4807 km2 (2884 mi\u00b2), making it Iceland’s second largest national park. It is home to the valley Mors\u00e1rdalur, the mountain Krist\u00ednartindar and the glacier Skaftafellsj\u00f6kull (a spur of the Vatnaj\u00f6kull ice cap). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Skaftafell <\/a>
Skaftafell National Park measures about 4807 km2 (2884 mi\u00b2), making it Iceland’s second largest national park. It is home to the valley Mors\u00e1rdalur, the mountain Krist\u00ednartindar and the glacier Skaftafellsj\u00f6kull (a spur of the Vatnaj\u00f6kull ice cap). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Hof <\/a>
Hof in \u00d6r\u00e6fi has been a ecclesiastical site for almost 700 years, and is first mentioned in a cartulary from 1343. Hofskirkja Church was dedicated to saint Clement. The core of the current church at Hof was built in 1884, and was the last turf church built in the old Icelandic architectural style. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Vatnaj\u00f6kull <\/a>
Vatnaj\u00f6kull (meaning Glacier of Rivers), also known as the Vatna Glacier, is the largest and most voluminous Icelandic glacier, and one of the largest in area in Europe. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Fjalls\u00e1rl\u00f3n <\/a>
Fjalls\u00e1rl\u00f3n is a glacier lake at the south end of the Icelandic glacier Vatnaj\u00f6kull. Fjallsj\u00f6kull 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. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Vatnaj\u00f6kull <\/a>
Vatnaj\u00f6kull (meaning Glacier of Rivers), also known as the Vatna Glacier, is the largest and most voluminous Icelandic glacier, and one of the largest in area in Europe. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n <\/a>
J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n (literally “glacial river lagoon”) is a large glacial lagoon in southeast Iceland, on the borders of Vatnaj\u00f6kull National Park. Situated at the head of Brei\u00f0amerkurj\u00f6kull, it evolved into a lagoon after the glacier started receding from the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. <\/div> <\/div>
\"Icebergs <\/a>
Icebergs wash out from J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n through a narrow inlet. Tides then bring them onto the black sand beach. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Icebergs <\/a>
Icebergs wash out from J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n through a narrow inlet. Tides then bring them onto the black sand beach. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n <\/a>
J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n (literally “glacial river lagoon”) is a large glacial lagoon in southeast Iceland, on the borders of Vatnaj\u00f6kull National Park. Situated at the head of Brei\u00f0amerkurj\u00f6kull, it evolved into a lagoon after the glacier started receding from the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n <\/a>
J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n (literally “glacial river lagoon”) is a large glacial lagoon in southeast Iceland, on the borders of Vatnaj\u00f6kull National Park. Situated at the head of Brei\u00f0amerkurj\u00f6kull, it evolved into a lagoon after the glacier started receding from the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n <\/a>
J\u00f6kuls\u00e1rl\u00f3n (literally “glacial river lagoon”) is a large glacial lagoon in southeast Iceland, on the borders of Vatnaj\u00f6kull National Park. Situated at the head of Brei\u00f0amerkurj\u00f6kull, it evolved into a lagoon after the glacier started receding from the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

More images from Iceland can be found in my gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Google map snapshot of the region [s\u00e1rl\u00f3n<\/em> translates to lagoon and kull<\/em> to glacier].<\/p>\n

\"Skaftafell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More images from Iceland can be found in my gallery. A Google map snapshot of the region [s\u00e1rl\u00f3n translates to lagoon and kull to glacier].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[208,211],"tags":[48,598,583],"class_list":{"0":"post-1583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iceland","8":"category-landscape-photography","9":"tag-glacier","10":"tag-iceland","11":"tag-landscape","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Iceland-8111_Edit_2224.jpg?fit=900%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FUJv-px","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}