Fjallsárlón () is a glacier lake at the south end of the

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Vatnajökull. ''Fjallsjökull'' which is part of the bigger glacier reaches down to the water of the lake and some ice-bergs are drifting by on its surface. The glacier calving into the lagoon is a part of Vatnajökull National Park and the better known glacier lake Jökulsárlón is not far from there. From the glacier lake Breiðárlón a little river flows into the Fjallsárlón. Above, there is looming the

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Öræfajökull. At its shore, in the summertime, it is better to beware of the skúas, big seagulls which have their nests on the ground around the lake.

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