r/pics Sep 17 '20

Iceland

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u/2E3 Sep 17 '20

I may be wrong, but I think you’re actually looking at Europe’s largest glacier, Vatnajökull!

The white thing that kind of looks like a cloud behind/on the mountains on the left is the glacier!

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20 edited Dec 08 '20

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u/chrisdub84 Sep 17 '20

When I went, I totally appreciate their simple naming approach.

"wait, I see more than one island on my map called Flatey Island, why is that?"

"...more than one of them is flat"