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300px|thumb|right|Drangajökull

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  • Holocene history
  • Modern monitoring and recent change
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300px|thumb|right|Drangajökull

Drangajökull (, regionally also ) is the northernmost glacier of Iceland, occupying the southern foothills of the Hornstrandir peninsula in the Westfjords region. It covers approximately 150 km2 and is the only Icelandic ice cap situated entirely below 1,000 metres in elevation. Lake sediment cores show that Drangajökull persisted near or above its present extent well into the mid-Holocene before retreating to near-modern limits between about 9,500 and 7,200 years ago. Modern airborne LiDAR mapping indicates the glacier has lost roughly 1.19 km3 of ice—an average thinning of 8.0 metres—since around 1990, even as its surge-type outlet glaciers periodically advance.

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