Jökulsá á Breiðamerkursandi
Jökulsá á Breiðamerkursandi () is a river in Southeast Iceland in Austur-Skaftafellssýsla in the middle of Breiðamerkursandur, a glacial outwash plain.

It connects the glacier lake Jökulsárlón with the sea, the Atlantic Ocean. The river is very short, at the moment about 500 m, it was still 1.500 m of length in 1989, but its length was 1.000 m around the year 1900, when it discharged directly the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, the lake beginning to form not before 1935–40. The lake grew very fast from 1950 on and changed the course of the river. The medium discharge today is 250–300 m³/s. From time to time, icebergs from the lake enter the river.

Erosion could with time break down the spits and connect the glacier lake with the sea, forming a fjord. The government fights the erosion, by stabilising the shoreline of the sea and also of the river, not least in order to save the road.
Q189
Iceland
LOC
Q156246
Austur-Skaftafellssýsla
LOC
Q14567939
Breiðamerkursandur
LOC
None
glacial outwash plain
UNK
Q511933
Jökulsárlón
LOC
Q97
Atlantic Ocean
LOC
Q907049
Breiðamerkurjökull
LOC
Q16429849
Jökulsá á Breiðamerkursandi
Concept
1989-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1989
DATE
1900-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1900
DATE
1935-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1935
DATE
1950-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1950
DATE
+1.500^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
1.500
NUMBER
+1.000^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
1.000
NUMBER
+40^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
40
NUMBER
+300^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
300
NUMBER
country
mouth of the watercourse
country
country