Europe’s largest glacier can be found in Vatnajökull National Park, a spectacular protected wilderness area in southwest Iceland. Once stretching over more than a tenth of the country, the UNESCO World Heritage Site now covers a mere 8% of the island. It has a surface area of around 3,127 square miles (8,100sq km) but is shrinking rapidly due to climate change. It’s thought to be retreating by a length of nearly three football fields a year in some places.

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