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Iceland’s Psychedelic Stonehenge
In Iceland’s northeast corner, there’s a road that few will recommend. It has largely been forgotten by the tourism boom – and that’s what makes it so special.
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Reykjavik to switch off street lights for Northern Lights
Reykjavik City Council has announced its decision to switch off street lights in selected parts of the Icelandic capital to enable those in the city to enjoy the fantastic Northern Lights display forecast for tonight. Street lights will be turned off between 10pm and 11pm in various districts of Reykjavik – including the city centre.
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Iceland finds all guilty in banker market-abuse case
Iceland’s Supreme Court has return a guilty verdict for all nine defendants in the Kaupþing market manipulation case, the court trial for which began in April 2015.
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After Mudslides and Flooding in Iceland, Elves Are Suspects
Workers clearing a roadway after a series of storms unleashed havoc after unwittingly dumping dirt on a special rock that has its own name in Icelandic folklore. By Katie Rogers. (Sept. 27, 2016)
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Iceland’s Plan to Get Energy from Hot Magma Is Really Cool
Iceland boasts some of the most alien geography on Earth, and now the Nordic country is tapping its unique natural phenomena as a potential—and highly volatile—source of future energy. An intrepid team of Icelandic researchers hopes that magma, or molten rock, might one day become a super-powerful geothermal energy source. Right now, the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) is attempting to harvest power from magma beneath a lava flow in Reykjanes. If they succeed, their achievement “could lead to a revolution in the energy efficiency of high-temperature...
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The Radical, Grassroots-Led Pirate Party Just Might Win Iceland’s Elections
Though she’s grown out the blue-dyed coiffure, Birgitta Jónsdóttir still brightens up the anodyne halls of the Althing, Iceland’s parliament in Reykjavík, the country’s capital. In stockinged feet, a white-cotton hippie skirt, and a dark-blue embroidered waistcoat, the 49-year-old Jónsdóttir refuses to fit the classic mold of politician, even though she’s occupied a parliamentary seat for seven years, since 2012 as the front person of the Pirate Party. Jónsdóttir, the former WikiLeaks spokesperson and a published lyricist, calls herself a “poetician,” since verse is her true calling...
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Icelandic airline announces transatlantic flights from Cork Airport
WOW air, an Icelandic low cost airline, has announced transatlantic flights from Cork Airport, via Reykjavik, to eight cities across the US and Canada. The Icelandic low cost operator will also start a new Cork to Reykjavik service next year, with onward connections to major US and Canadian cities including New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington DC, Montreal and Toronto, with fares from €149 each way.
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Pirates poised to take over Iceland
In the fjord-bound fishing town of Höfn, Iceland, a group of high school students are impatiently waiting for a Pirate. She comes, bearing a flag: Purple with the outline of a sail blown into the shape of a capital P. Emblazoned on the sail is a white, flayed cod in a nod to Icelandic heraldry. The queen of the Pirates in this constituency is Oktavia Hrund Jónsdóttir, 37, who is campaigning for the Icelandic Pirate Party ahead of October 29’s elections to Iceland’s Parliament, the Althingi.
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Flying over Iceland
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Hvannadalshnukur, Iceland.
I was really never so close to a glacier. The only time I've seen a glacier before, was in Norway a few months ago, but only from the distance. This time, I could stand right next to it. It was absolutely breathtaking and incredible. This place was weirdly quiet. But every now and then, the ice cracked and big chunks of ice broke off and fell into the glacier lagoon. I will never forget this sound in my head. It is so unique, as nothing else I've ever heard in my life. Another thing I loved about Hvannadalshnúkur, is the contrast of the green mountains, the blue white glacier and the brown water. So many natural contrasts in one place.
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NSFW Icelandic Humor Is As Dark As Their Winters (NSFW)
Gálgahúmor is Icelandic for black humor (or gallows humor), and as you can see from these super dark comics by Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic humor is blacker than most.
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Iceland’s Pirate party invited to form government
Anti-establishment group receives mandate for power-sharing pact after talks to build five-party coalition fail.
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East Icelanders tell TV weatherman to stop standing in front of their region
People in the eastern part of Iceland are feeling overshadowed. And they're blaming it all on TV weatherman Sigurður Jonsson.
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Iceland's female hip-hop collective is changing the game
With songs about slut-shaming and body positivity, Iceland's punkest hip-hop crew are finally putting the country's female rappers on the map.
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Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening
In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Why won’t other countries follow suit?
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Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening
In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Why won’t other countries follow suit?
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Iceland Knows How To Stop Teen Substance Abuse. The World Isn't Listening
In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut. Why aren't other countries following its lead?
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Storybook Landscape Photos Celebrate the Enchanting Beauty of Iceland
The Follow Me Away project captures stunning images of breathtaking places. For the latest installment, the model/photographer duo traveled to Iceland.
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Iceland drills 4.7 km down into volcano to tap clean energy
It's named after a Nordic god and drills deep into the heart of a volcano
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A Plane Crash, A Glacier, And An Entrepreneur: How Icelandair Opened Up Air Travel For Everyone
In the winter of 1951, Alfred Eliasson’s company, Icelandic Airlines, was about to go under. The founder and his executive team had decided to pull out of the transatlantic market just a few months prior, after established carriers like Pan-Am proved to be tougher competition than expected. Low domestic demand in Iceland, a country of just 200,000 inhabitants at the time, also proved to be a challenge. By December of 1950, the airline known as Loftleiðir in Icelandic had only one scheduled route. It was between the capital city of Reykjavik and a small group of islands off Iceland’s east coast.
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