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Diamond Beach: Iceland's spellbinding black sand beach covered in sparkling ice jewels

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Diamond Beach is a strip of jet-black sand covered in sparkling chunks of ice.

The beach is a stone's throw away from Iceland's Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon.

The icebergs originate from the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, which discharges meltwater and ice into a lake.