Okjökull
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Okjökull (, Ok glacier) was a glacier in western Iceland on top of the shield volcano Ok.
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Vinony's link graph records 12 inbound references to Okjökull, and connects out to Iceland, Reykjavík and geographic coordinate system.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Former glaciers of Europe and Glaciers of Iceland.
Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Glacier.name
- Okjökull
- Glacier.image
- File:Ok glacier 2003.jpg
- Glacier.caption
- Okjökull in September 2003.Photo: Oddur Sigurðsson
- Glacier.type
- Glacier
- Glacier.location
- Iceland
- Glacier.thickness
- less than
- Glacier.status
- Former glacier
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- glacier
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Borgarbyggð
- Image
- Ok glacier 2003.jpg
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- located in/on physical feature
- Ok
- native label
- Ok
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2014-00-00
- Commons category
- Ok glacier
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Commemorative plaque
- References
Okjökull (, Ok glacier) was a glacier in western Iceland on top of the shield volcano Ok.
Ok is located north-east of Reykjavík. The glacier was declared dead in 2014 by glaciologist Oddur Sigurðsson due to its loss of thickness. Ice crystals in glaciers collapse under their own weight to form solid ice capable of movement due to central gravitational pressure only when the ice is around 40 to 50 metres thick. By 2017 its thickness no longer met this criterion. Its surface area had declined from size at the start of the twentieth century to about in 2015.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Okjökull” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations