Skeiðará
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thumb|300px|right|Skeidará Sandur from Skaftafell National Park|Skaftafell Skeiðará () is a relatively short glacier river (about 30 km long). It has its source on the glacier Skeiðarárjökull, one of the southern arms of the Vatnajökull in the south of Iceland.
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- Skeiðará
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- Atlantic Ocean
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thumb|300px|right|Skeidará Sandur from Skaftafell National Park|Skaftafell Skeiðará () is a relatively short glacier river (about 30 km long). It has its source on the glacier Skeiðarárjökull, one of the southern arms of the Vatnajökull in the south of Iceland.
In spite of its short length, this river has a bad reputation. It is especially feared because of the frequent glacier runs that can be fatal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skeiðará” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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