New Road Opens through Þingvellir
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A new road through Þingvellir National Park was formally opened Monday.New Road Opens through Þingvellir
A new road through Þingvellir National Park was formally opened Monday.
A new road through Þingvellir National Park was formally opened Monday.
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors is the best art of the 21st century, according to a list published this week by the Guardian.
They had never seen a horse before and never learned to swim.
A new WOW Air website could be launched by the end of the week, Michele Ballarin tells the Washington Post, but industry analysts remain skeptical.
The Icelandic Met Office has issued a yellow weather alert for the capital region, for South Iceland and the Faxaflói bay area in West Iceland.
Miraculously, a pilot survived when a small single engine plane he was flying crashed on top of Skálafell mountain yesterday afternoon.
The first major international MeToo conference opens this afternoon at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík.
Altogether, 7,856 shotguns were newly registered in Iceland from 2010 through July 2019.
A small glacial flood in Skaftá river, South Iceland, has been reported by the Icelandic Met Office.
Today is the Day of Icelandic Nature – celebrated September 16 every year since 2010.
There is tension within the Icelandic police force these days.
Last night, Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir won an Emmy award for her score to the HBO series Chernobyl at the 2019 Creative Arts Emmys.
The wife of former owner of Primera Air, an airline which went bankrupt in October of last year, has put her house up for sale.
When two 19-year-old Japanese friends with a limited budget visited Iceland in 2004, they were delighted to discover a food stand selling pylsur – Icelandic hot-dogs.
Registration is underway for the RVK Brewing Co. Beer Run, set for September 21 in Nauthólsvík, Reykjavík.
“We’ve sought to find the newest artists in the Reykjavík music community and to provide a stage for them to showcase,” explains James Cox, music coordinator at Hlemmur Square who co-hosts a new intimate concert series, New to Us, at Hlemmur Square, with bar manager Halldór Viðar Hjaltested.
A bike share service, called Framúrskarandi, opened in Reykjavík on Tuesday.
There are plans to install a statue of cartoon character Tintin by Akureyri harbor.
A kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) has been spotted by Mógilsá river in Esja mountain, Southwest Iceland.
The average number of annual hours worked was lower in Iceland than in most OECD countries in 2018.
An earthquake of magnitude 3.4 was detected at 6:06 this morning, about 3 km (1.9 miles) northeast of Grindavík, Southwest Iceland.
A group of six Icelandic female swimmers who call themselves Marglytturnar, meaning “the Jellyfish,” completed a relay swim across the English Channel last night.
We’ve heard of pictures to die for. But one tourist in Iceland seems to take that term literally.
Alþingi, the Icelandic parliament reconvenes today for the 150th session.
Overnight, the Icelandic Coast Guard rescued two fishermen, whose boat had stranded on the south side of Langanes peninsula, Northeast Iceland.
Police arrested three men from Romania on Friday, suspected of credit card theft in Iceland last year.
A group of Icelandic female swimmers, who call themselves Marglytturnar, meaning “the Jellyfish,” are hoping to be able to start their relay swim across the English Channel tonight.
President of India Ram Nath Kovind and First Lady Savita Kovind arrived in Iceland on a state visit this morning, along with their entourage.
The export value of Icelandic horses amounted to ISK 10 billion (USD 79 million; EUR 72 million) during the past decade.
Malaysian businessman Loo Eng Wah has big plans for tourism near the town Hella, South Iceland.
The town of Seyðisfjörður, the East Fjords, is in deep trouble – literally.
Nature was on the move when Morgunblaðið photographer Ragnar Axelsson recently visited Fjallsárlón glacial lagoon
The party group of the Independence Party approved yesterday the suggestion of Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson to appoint Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir minister of justice.
US interest in Iceland and the Arctic region is clearly increasing.
The party group of the Independence Party approved yesterday the suggestion of Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson to appoint Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir minister of justice.
