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Driving eastwards from Kirkjubæjarklaustur.
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Vatnajökull is the largest glacier in Europe.
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(for Art) the car
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Seamus enjoys the scenery
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Seamus, Gowolla and Mickey
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Cloud covered glacier and Einbreið Brú (single width bridge)
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Glacial river, the water is clear and more greeny blue than normal
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You can see the glacial tongue coming down from the glacier
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Seamus considers the glacier
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Ganesh and the mountains
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Ganesh and the glacier
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Layers of rock
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The Skfatafellsjökull glacier tongue of Vatnajökull glacier (the largest glacier in Europe) in Skaftafell National Park.
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Can you see Elves in the rocks?
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The Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon, created by run off from the glaciar - some of it solid.
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Apartment blocks for Elves.
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There are a lot of farms and settlements.
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In Höfn (the furthest East we get) we spot a street called Svalbarð (ref Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Books).
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It's possible that this dish in Höfn is pointing to the geostationary satellites over the equator.
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Leaving Höfn and driving Westwards.
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