The glaciers of Iceland - tremendous, beautiful. 11,400 km² (4,400 sq mi), is covered by glaciers, around 11% of Iceland’s total land area. You can spot them pretty easily on any map or satellite image of the country. At the end of the last ice age, Iceland was almost entirely covered in glaciers. The ice would have joined Iceland up to the Arctic and British Isles. The glaciers that you can see today are the last remnants of this enormous ice cap.