The Vatnajökull National Park will cover a total of 15,000 square kilometres (just under 6,000 square miles). Europe's biggest glacier, Vatnajökull, is fully incorporated in the national park. Alcoa ...

Vatnajokull National Park is the third Icelandic site to join Unesco's World Heritage List, after Thingvellir National Park in 2004, where the oldest parliament in the world was established, and ...

The top spot went to another northern park in England, with the Yorkshire Dales topping the podium. Iceland's Vatnajokull National Park and Croatia's Plitvice Lakes National Park ranked in second ...

Other light shows on Earth have less organic origins. The bright green auroras seen over Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland are the result of fast-moving electrons colliding with oxygen and ...

The Vatnajokull National Park will cover a total of 15,000 square kilometres (just under 6,000 square miles). Europe's biggest glacier, Vatnajokull, is fully incorporated in the national park.