On July 17, 2003 two British students, Ian Harrison and Tony Porser, participants of a team of British explorers studying the glacier snout Morsarjokull in 1953, were commemorated by Dr. Jack D. Ives, their comrade, who unveiled a memorial in the National Park.  Ian and Tony decided to conquer the country's highest mountain and collect some samples on the way.  They were caught in bad weather on the way and were never found again.

After the great floods in the wake of the 1996 Grimsvotn eruption, a memorial was erected from the twisted beams of one of the bridges, which were damaged.  It ist located just east of the country's longest bridge, just south of National Park Skaftafell.