Description

Iceland Vatnajökull glacial lagoon postcard

This color postcard shows a glacial lagoon at Vatnajökull (Vatna Glacier) in South Iceland, with large white and blue icebergs floating in calm turquoise water. In the foreground, a family of three (two adults and a child) sits on a grassy, rocky shore looking at the ice. The background includes distant mountains and glacier slopes with snow patches.

The back is multilingual with the scene title in Icelandic (“Við Jökullón á Breiðamerkursandi”), English (“Glacial lagoon at Vatnajökull. South-Iceland”), German (“Ein Gletschersee am Rande von Vatnajökull. S-Island”), and Danish (“En gletschersø ved Randevon Vatnajökull. S-Island”). It credits publication by Grafík hf, Reykjavík, photo by Edda Foto (likely photographer Guðmundur Hannesson or similar), with code “256” in the series. The layout includes a blank address/message area and publisher’s logo.

A standard mid-20th-century tourism souvenir postcard from Iceland’s South Coast series.