/ DETTIFOSS WATERFALL / ICELAND / JULY / 2020 /
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Dettifoss is Iceland’s greatest and most majestic waterfall...
It is also rated as Europe’s most powerful waterfall, based on its magnitude. Dettifoss is 45 meters high and 100 meters wide, and its force is such that the bedrock trembles when hit by the weight of an immense column of white-foaming water.
Dettifoss is in the glacial river Jökulsá á Fjöllum, which emerges from beneath Vatnajökull glacier and runs into Öxarfjörður bay. The annual average flow is 193 cubic meters per second, lowest in winter months but increases in the summer to over 400 m3/s in august. During floods it often reaches well over 500 m3/s but the highest recorded flow was in 1999, measuring 2770 m3/s at Grímsstaðir, 25km up river.
