Rit (Vísindafélag Íslendinga) - 01.07.1931, Blaðsíða 23

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Fig. 12. The Hólatindajökull from W. 15/7 1930.
(X are the fixing marks).
in a deep bed on the western side of Kvíahnúkur. This is
not indicated on the map.
From this place the snow line gets gradually higher west-
wards. The glacier margin is covered with snow and split up
by small ridges that separate the beds of the many rivulets,
that periodically, at least, are shed from the glacier.
On the southwestern side I encountered quite unexpectedly
an about 1000 m. long skridjökull, that originates chiefly in
the pass between Sandfell and the western slope of the
glacier. It is very steep with many crevasses in the upper
part, while the final tongue is almost horizontal. The about
150 m. broad front of the glacier ends even on the brink of
a 200 m. high boulder-terrace. Here the ice has become
agglomerated with clay and boulder, forming a row of cones
and hillocks with deep crevasses between them.
As I was not able to get information of any local name of
this skridjökull, I shall refer to it as „Hólatindajökull“.
Fixing marks:
Ci A white-painted stone on a Iarge block at the southwestern
end of the ice tongue.
Cii A white-painted stone about 50 m. farther west.
The line Cll —Cl runs across the front margin of the glacier
and cuts a large single stoneblock on the eastern side.