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Vatnajokull, also known as the Water Glacier in English, is the most important and maximum voluminous ice cap in Iceland, and one among the most important in region in Europe. It is the second one biggest glacier in vicinity after Austfonna on Svalbard in Norway however, though, larger with the aid of volume. It is placed inside the south-east of the island, masking more than nine according to cent of the US of a. The name Vatnajokull is derived from vatna, the genitive plural shape of vatn which means "water" in Icelandic however is likewise used to consult a lake, and jokull, the Icelandic for glacier.

With a place of eight, a 100km², Vatnajokull is the most important ice cap in Europe by quantity and the second-biggest after Austfonna on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, Norway in place now not counting the nevertheless larger Severny Island ice cap of Novaya Zemlya, Russia, which may be appeared as located in the extreme northeast of Europe. On 7 June 2008, it have become part of the Vatnajokull National Park. The common thickness of the ice is 400 m, with a most thickness of 1,000 m. Iceland's maximum top, Hvannadalshnukur, is placed inside the southern outer edge of Vatnajokull, near Skaftafell National Park.

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