Jukulsarlon Glacier Lagoon – Iceland

As we drove along Iceland’s Ring Road in the southeastern part of the country, we stopped at Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon, one of the well-known natural sites in Iceland. This lagoon is filled with floating icebergs that have broken off from an outlet glacier of Vatnajokull.

Vatnajokull is the largest glacier in Europe by volume, and it contains some of the oldest ice in Iceland. In its deepest layers, the compressed snow and ice can be hundreds of thousands of years old. Some of the ice drifting beside the boar may have begun forming before modern Iceland existed as we know it.

The lagoon itself has expanded in recent decades as the glacier has retreated. It is now one of the deepest lakes in Iceland.