Iceland’s Okjokull glacier commemorated with plaque
ICELAND’S OKJOKULL GLACIER COMMEMORATED WITH PLAQUE In Iceland, people will gather to commemorate the loss of the glacier Okjokull, which was officially declared dead in 2014 at the age of 700. The glacier was officially declared dead by the Icelandic Meteorological Office when it was no longer thick enough to move. What once was glacier has been reduced to a small patch of ice atop a volcano. Okjokull is the first Icelandic glacier to…
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