December 2011
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New Year's Eve in Iceland live webcam →
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New Year's Eve in Iceland
Today is the last day of the year in Iceland as everywhere else. New Year’s Eve is an amazing time in Reykjavík. Icelanders fire up around 6-700 tonnes of fireworks on New Year’s Eve. That’s over 2 kg of explosives per inhabitant. Unlike in many places, we don’t have any organized fireworks shows. This is all blown up by people like you and me. It is mostly a result of...
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Backpacker Magazine - "Iceland: Tested" →
Check out this article in Backpacker Magazine about backcountry skiing in Iceland with my good friends at Borea Adventures.
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vanijah:
Iceland it runs wild and unrestricted.
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WatchHellbound Heart by Reykjavík!
Nice new song on Reykjavík!’s new album Locust Sounds. The flight from Reykjavík to Ísafjörður is quite an interesting one as you can see. In this video they come in from the north and have to make a sharp turn seconds before landing. You can also see another video of a takeoff from the Ísafjörður airport, aimed directly at the mountain. Oh, yeah and some are...
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WatchWhere Satan Goes Backpacking
Marcel Theroux from the Guardian drives and hikes to the top of Magni, the brand new mountain created by the volcanic eruption on Fimmvörðuháls in 2010. Up there in some classic Fimmvörðuháls weather he cooks some hotdogs on the cooling but still steaming lava. I’m actually not very happy with that last part. Please don’t go digging around in our new...
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shaquandabonquiqui asked: I'm going to Iceland in January and it is my dream to feel an earthquake. I have been monitoring the seismic activity maps I know there are often small ones under Katla right now, but is it possible to actually feel them? and how often would they be felt in Thingvellir or Reykjavik? I'll also be over near Blue Lagoon if that helps. Thanks!
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4on4off asked: I have been offered the chance to spend 3 days in Reykjavík in January. I was wondering if you could suggest some things worth doing in the short time I have there?
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Game of Thrones cause Katla eruption scare
Icelandic emergency services were surprised to receive several reports of a possible eruption beginning in the Katla volcano. Both locals and volcano nerds around the world who keep an eye on the Katla webcam reported peculiar lights high up on the Mýrdalsjökull glacier, which covers the volcano. Although the earthquake monitors have shown a lot of activity recently, nothing interesting was...
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WatchIceland Timelapse Video
Did you know that all of the places featured in this beautiful video is accessible to anyone? These places, including Jökulsárlón, Seljalandsfoss, Dyrhólaey, Foss á Síðu, Svínafellsjökull, Skaftafell, Skógafoss, Hvítserkur, Víkurfjörur and Hekla are all right by Iceland’s main road, the Ring Road or very close by. They are also almost all by the south coast. Imagine...
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WatchUp Close and Personal with Icelandic Volcanoes
Scott Pelley of CBS news teams up with Iceland’s best known volcanologist, Haraldur Sigurðsson and drives to the top of the erupting Eyjafjallajökull glacier. For some reason they make it appear as this just happened, but it obviously was filmed during the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010. Check it out.
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Submission from: KeithListensToMusic
Took this photo while driving a section of Ring Road this past April. I only had the car for a day, but it was one of the best days of my life. Came across this abandoned little barn near a cave full of seagulls near Dyrhólaey.
