Ok was the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier (jökull is Icelandic for 'glacier').
Text for this piece is taken from the plaque on the site:
Ok er fyrsti nafnkunni jökullinn til að missa titil sinn. Á næstu 200 árum er talið að allir jöklar landsins fari sömu leið. Þetta minnismerki er til vitnis um að við vitum hvað er að gerast og hvað þarf að gera. Aðeins þú veist hvort við gerðum eitthvað.
Ok is the first glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.