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Langjokull

Iceland's second-largest ice cap, reachable for snowmobile tours and the man-made Into the Glacier ice tunnel.

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Iceland's second-largest ice cap, reachable for snowmobile tours and the man-made Into the Glacier ice tunnel. It feeds the Hvítá and Borgarfjörður rivers and sits north of the Golden Circle.

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