Below you can see one of the tongues of Vatnajökull - the Skeišarįrjökull. This tongue was covered in a black sand, created as the glacier pushes down past the mountains, grinding them up as it does so into the sand.
© Mark Hughes & Audrey Bowerman, July-August 2003
page created: 16th August 2003 | updated: 7th November 2005