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Fig. 14. One of the middle-tongues with the fixing marks
Di and Dn. 20h 1930.
the glacier margin hanging a little down the concave south-
ern slope.
To the E of the cirque a regularly formed moraine wall
begins, and runs along the margin of the glacier eastwards
to Geldingafell as may be seen in fig. 15.
The Geldingafell (824 m.) is a tuff mountain, at the NE-
corner of the glacier, that bounds the northern side of the
]ökulháls glacier. Time, however, did not admit of further
reconnoitering of this part.
From Geldingafell Eggert Olafsson and Bjarni Pálsson1)
made the first ascent ever made to the top of Snæfellsjökull
on ]uly lst 1754. They say that Geldingafell during some
summers is almost quite covered with snow and ice. Last
summer it was only dotted with some scattered snowfields.
The most urgent future work to be done for the research
of Snæfellsjökull is to get climatological information from the
immediate neighbourhood, and to establish some totalisators
on the glacier for measuring the precipitation. Temperature
observations on the top of the glacier, during summer, would
also give valuable information about the decrease of tempera-
1) Rejse gennem Island, Sorö 1772. I. Page 276—288.