Photography and licences
Editorial photographs are selected for geographic relevance and credited to their creators. Files are converted to WebP and responsively cropped for display; natural cave images record a moment in time, not a guarantee of current access.
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Photograph by Davide Cantelli. Made available under CC0 through Wikimedia Commons. The image is used as a general Iceland ice-cave scene and does not identify a currently accessible chamber.
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Katla region
Photograph by Gretar Skulason, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Used for the Katla regional landscape rather than as a photograph of one permanent cave.
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Katla cave context
Aerial photograph by TommyBee, released to the public domain. Used to explain the wider glacier setting of Katla cave visits.
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Vatnajökull region
Photograph by Nicolamquin, licensed CC BY 3.0. Used for the wider ice-cap context.
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Skaftafell region
Photograph by Praveen Kumar Bodigutla, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Used to show guided travel on the Skaftafell glacier landscape.
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Falljökull guide
Photograph by Giuseppe Milo, licensed CC BY 3.0. Used specifically for the Falljökull and Virkisjökull cave area.
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Crystal cave guide
Photograph by Sindragn, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, taken in 2018. The caption deliberately includes the year because natural formations change.
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Breiðamerkurjökull guide
Photograph by Jakub Hałun, licensed CC BY 4.0. The date identifies the formation as a historical record and does not imply that it remains open.
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Langjökull region
Photographs by Giuseppe Milo, licensed CC BY 3.0. Used only for the constructed Into the Glacier tunnel, not as examples of natural caves.
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Tour photography
Tour-card and tour-detail photography is supplied with the corresponding Viator product data and remains attached to that specific experience. It is not used to identify a different cave or region.
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