Jökulsarlon (glacial river lagoon) in Breidamerkursamdur on the south coast in June 1997, the icebergs calve directly from the Breidamerkurjokull glacier into the lake and can be up to 15 m high,

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Ring Road about 65 km west of Höfn on the south coast, in June 1997 most of the Ring Road was still not paved but looked like this, today most of it is paved.

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Jökulsarlon (glacial river lagoon) in Breidamerkursamdur on the south coast in June 1997, the icebergs calve directly from the Breidamerkurjokull glacier into the lake and can be up to 15 m high, the lake is up to 150 m deep, between the sea and the lake there is a land bridge only 50 m wide, over which the Ring Road runs.

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View over the Vatnajökull glacier to the east; continuing by jeep was not permitted in June 1997 for safety reasons.

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The erupting Great Geyser. The height of its eruptions now reaches only up to 10 meters. Slide photo. Shot: August 1995. 
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