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Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, Höfn, Iceland

Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon

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Lake  ·  Höfn, Iceland 64.0480°N   16.1800°W

Why you should go

Ninety seconds on Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon

Time needed
1 hour2 with Diamond Beach
Cost
Free to walkBoats ticketed apart
Effort
Flat, shortShore is loose gravel
Season
Boats May to NovNone in midwinter

You can watch icebergs break off Breiðamerkurjökull and drift down a short channel to the sea, from a car park on the shore beside the ring road. Boats run in summer only, and none at all in midwinter.

Know before you goDo not climb on beached or floating icebergs, which roll without warning, and do not swim: the outlet current runs hard on the ebb. The lagoon has roughly trebled in area since the nineteen seventies and is still growing, so its shape changes between visits.

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