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Svartifoss is a waterfall in Skaftafell, in Vatnajökull National Park, that drops over a cliff of dark, mostly hexagonal basalt columns. The columns formed about 300,000 years ago when lava filled an old riverbed and split as it cooled. It is reached on foot from the Skaftafellsstofa visitor centre on trail S2, which also passes Hundafoss and Magnúsarfoss.
Skaftafellsjökull is an outlet glacier of Vatnajökull, a tongue about 10 km long between the Skaftafellsheiði heath and the mountain Hafrafell in Vatnajökull National Park. The S1 trail, a 4.1 km loop from the Skaftafellsstofa visitor centre, leads to the meltwater lagoon at its front past moraines and kettle holes. Going onto the ice needs a guide.
Svínafellsjökull is an outlet glacier of Vatnajökull in Öræfi, about 7 km east of Skaftafell, flowing down from Öræfajökull between steep slopes. Its broken tongue ends in a small meltwater lagoon. In 2018 the authorities warned against trips onto the glacier after cracks were found in the Svínafellsheiði slope above it; going onto the ice needs a guide.
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