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We present an overview of glacier variations of the outlet glaciers of southeast atnajökull ice cap, celand, during the time period ∼1650–1900 as represented in historical archives, by geomorphological field evidence and assess the timing of the Little Ice Age (LIA) maximum. According to written documents, all glaciers advanced in the latter half of the seventeenth century and extended far out on the lowlands in the mid‐eighteenth century. Contemporary documents describe how all the studied glaciers were at their terminal moraines around ∼1880–1890 (no descriptions found for orsárjökull) and soon after started receding, marking the end of the in celand. Reconstruction of the maximum glacier surface geometry was based on glacial geomorphological features (including lateral and terminal moraines, trimlines and erratics), historical photographs, maps from 1904, and a 2010 digital elevation model. The …