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Eyjabakkajökull glacier, Iceland
A natural-color Landsat 7 image showing Iceland's Eyjabakkajökull glacier in 2000. The blue outlines indicate where the glacier was in 1991 and 1973.
Eyjabakkajökull is an outlet glacier of the Vatnajökull ice cap in Iceland. It has been retreating since a 2.8-km surge occurred in 1972-1973. This true-color Landsat 7 image shows the glacier terminus in September 2000, by which time it had retreated 1.8 km. The light- and dark-blue outlines show the terminus extent in 1973 and 1991, respectively.
Eyjabakkajökull glacier is found in southeastern Iceland
About the image: Landsat 7 ETM+ natural-color composite (bands 3, 2, 1) with outlines derived by D.K. Hall, R.S. Williams, Jr. and O. Sigurðsson, from Landsat 1 MSS and Landsat 5 TM data. Image processing by Marit Jentoft-Nilsen of NASA's Visualization Analysis Lab.
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