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Fig. 10. The northern peak from S. IS/7 1930.
As most of the crevasses were hidden by snow we had to
walk very cautiously and it took us therefore 1.5 hours to
reach the middle-peak. No difficulties worth mentioning were
however met with on the glacier itself, but fhe peak was so
steep and covered with so hard snow that we had to give
up some 30 m. below the top. The western side of the peak
rises abruptly from the snow-covered precipice that encloses
the crater valley S and E. The view from the top affords
a magnificent panorama of the whole western half of Iceland,
from the Westfjord-peninsula in N to the Westmanna-islands
in S. Towards east the horizon is limited by Hofsjökull,
Hekla and Mýrdalsjökull.
A skridjökull, about of the same magnitude as that on
the Jökulháls was seen to extend from the crater valley
towards NW.
On my way home I measured the height of the firnlimit
on the southern side of the Jökulháls-glacier.
At the southern margin of the glacier these fixing marks
were established:
Aj A large white-painted stoneblock at the ice margin.
Ao A 120 cm. high cairn (varöa) with a white-painted top on the
innermost moraine.
Distance Ai — A2 65 m.
Direction At—A2 S45E.