Langjokull

Langjökull, the "long glacier," stretches across the western Icelandic highlands. It is one of the island's largest ice caps, covering the heights of a volcanic system beneath a thick mantle of ice. Its northern summit at Baldjökull rises above the surrounding interior, and the glacier can be seen from Haukadalur to the south. The great white mass belongs to a highland landscape of ice and volcanic mountains far from the more densely settled shores.