Iceland Day 6: Skaftafell
Skaftafellsjokull… Right next to Skaftafell at a 10 minute walk flows a glacier which is pretty much approachable… rain started falling from noon and wouldn’t stop until the next day…
Skaftafell National Park is situated between Kirkjubæjarklaustur, typically referred to as Klaustur, and Höfn in the south of Iceland.
It was founded on September 15, 1967, and enlarged twice afterwards. Today the park measures about 4807 km2 (2884 mi²), making it Iceland’s second largest national park. There you can find for example the valley Morsárdalur, the mountain Kristínartindar and the glacier Skaftafellsjökull (a spur of the Vatnajökull ice cap).
The landscape is very similar to some of the Alps, but it has been formed in thousands of years by different influences of fire (volcanic eruptions of Öræfajökull) and water (the glaciers Skeiðarájökull and Skaftafellsjökull), the rivers Skeiðará, Morsá und Skaftafellsá. Volcanic eruptions under the ice-cap can give rise to jökulhlaups (glacial floods) which swell the Skeiðará river massively. The sandy wasteland between the glacier and the sea caused by jökulhlaups is called the Sandur. The last jökulhlaup occurred in 1996.
Underneath some kind of a test… the full panorama you can see above but with the possibility to zoom in… if there are any problems in any browser, just let me know please 
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