Word: hardangervidda
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...plans to create a massive Vatnajökull National Park adjoining the Kárahnjúkar project in the glacial highlands, a move Alcoa and environmentalists support. The park could be as large as 5,275 sq km, 50% bigger than Europe's current No. 1, Norway's Hardangervidda. Sigfússon, who's also a geologist, is convinced the dam project is environmentally unsound. Pointing to the planned relocation of a glacial waterfall and the damming of sediment-carrying glacial rivers, he warns that "a huge plateau of silt" will eventually form around the large dam that, together...
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