Jökulsárlón Glacial Lagoon 2

The Lagoon is about a mile across. The guide said her grandmother told her the Lagoon was about 50 ft in the 1940's. At the rate it is disappearing, the glacier will be gone within 100 years. Considering that the glacier has been there over 1,000 years that is a pretty big deal.

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