Overview
About Myrdalsjokull
The ice cap cloaking the Katla volcano above Vík. Its outlet Sólheimajökull hosts snowmobile and superjeep tours, while the black sand plains below reveal jökulhlaup flood scars from past eruptions.
Illustration
Keep exploring
Related places & topics
Glacier
Solheimajokull
Sólheimajökull is an outlet glacier descending from the southwestern part of Mýrdalsjökull in South Iceland. Its changing ice front, debris-covered surface and exposed sediments make it a valuable place for studying how glaciers move and reshape valleys.
Read moreIllustration
Glacier
Eyjafjallajokull
Eyjafjallajökull names both an ice cap and the volcano beneath it in South Iceland. Above the Eyjafjöll farming district, this mountain links glacial landscapes with one of the most internationally consequential Icelandic eruptions of modern times.
Read moreIllustration
Glacier
Gigjokull
An outlet glacier of Eyjafjallajökull, famous for the dramatic ice and ash landscape left by the 2010 eruption.
Read more