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Rather small, only 19 m 2 and also a thin clacier.
The name is drawn from its many peaks (tindar) that are hard to climb and therefore a challenge for climbers.
Highest peaks Ýmir (1462 m) and Ýma (1448 m). Ýmir is named after the jotunn that Odinn and his brothers made out of heaven and earth. Ýma is a trolls name and stands next to Ýmir.
The glacier is not always visible on the way into Þórsmörk but the view of Tindfjöll is clearer.
The glacier is considered an active volcano even though there is no evidence of eruptions in historic time. The volcano is said to have spewed one of the biggest tephra layer known in Iceland since Ice Age. The layers of thephra that is said to have come from the volcano has properties only made in special kind of eruptions. The very same kind as in St. Helena in 1980 and in Krakatoa between Jaca and Sumatra in 1883. That kind of eruptions are very rare. This one is said to have occurred 250 thousand years ago and supposedly covered the area between the three glaciers with 500°C tehpra that travelled over the area at speed up to 200 km/ klst and transformed this beautiful area into a desert in minutes.
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