After about 100 people made a two-hour hike up a volcano, including Iceland\u2019s prime minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir, former UN human rights commissioner, Mary Robinson, and local reseachers ,installed a memorial plaque to the glacier, now called just “Ok,” minus the Icelandic word for glacier.<\/p>\n In 2014, \u201cwe made the decision that this was no longer a living glacier, it was only dead ice, it was not moving\u201d, a glaciologist with the Icelandic Meteorological Office told.<\/p>\n The glacier used to stretch six square miles and residents reminisced about drinking pure water thousands of years old from Ok.<\/p>\n “The symbolic death of a glacier is a warning to us, and we need action,” former Irish president Mary Robinson said.<\/p>\n This was Iceland’s first glacier to disappear. But an expert said all of the nation’s ice masses will be gone in 200 years.<\/p>\n Iceland loses about 11bn tonnes of ice per year, and scientists fear all of the island\u2019s 400-plus glaciers will be gone by 2200, according to Howe.\u00a0Glaciers<\/a>cover about 11% of the country\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n Glaciologists stripped Okjokull of its glacier status in 2014, a first for Iceland. In 1890, the glacier ice covered 16sq km (6.2 square miles) but by 2012 it measured just 0.7sq km, according to a report from the University of Iceland in 2017.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/glacier_plaque.jpg\")
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