Jökulsárlón, Iceland Finally I got shots of Aurora at Jökulsárlón that I allways wanted. This glacier lagoon is one of my favourite places to photograph in Iceland and getting a shot here with Aurora has been on the top of my "things to photograph" list for a long time. I didn´t however get the shot until the last day of our 5 day Easter trip. Jökulsárlón was formed when the large Breiðarmerkurjökull glacier retreated in the later part of the 20th century revealing a deep valley filled with water it had carved in over the centuries. When Iceland first was inhabited in the 9th and 10th century the glacier was much smaller than it is now. It wasn´t until during the "little ice age" starting in the 14th or 15th century that the glacier began advancing again. It advanced far enough to even engulfed farms that are first now 500 years later coming from under the ice again. The glacier reached it peak length in the start of the 20th century where it was only 200-300 meters from the coast. It has since retreated more than 10km forming a huge lake, in fact the deepest lake in Iceland more than 200m deep. It is predicted that in not so far future the lake will also become Iceland's biggest lake.