==Size==With an area of 8,100 km², Vatnajökull is the largest ice cap in Europe by volume (3,100 km³) and the second-largest (after Austfonna on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, Norway) in area (not counting the still larger Severny Island ice cap of Novaya Zemlya, Russia, which may be regarded as located in the extreme northeast of Europe).
Ledenik Vatnajökull (ledenik rek), znan tudi kot ledenik Vatna, je največji in najobsežnejši islandski ledenik in eden največjih v Evropi.