Giant pieces of melting ice, remnants of the collapsing glacier, float motionlessly in the mud-coloured brown glacier lake until they vanish forever. Hoffellsjökull, Iceland.

Hoffellsjökull is an outlet glacier which flows from the ice cap of Vatnajökull, located in the southern region of Iceland. The glacier was greatest in size around one hundred years ago, and for the next fifty years, it drifted to the moraine ridge now situated in front of it. Local residents would drive up onto this ridge and fill trucks with glacial ice used for chilling fish, both onshore and at sea.

Due to climate changes, Hoffellsjökull has retreated a considerable distance. A deep lake is rapidly developing in the depression left behind. It will continue to grow as the glacier retreats.

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TIME: 16:45
DATE: aug/26
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