Iceland Review,   27 November 2024 2:42 PM
In Focus: Ice Cave Tours

In late August of this year, one tourist died and another was injured when a human-constructed wall of ice leading to an ice cave in Breiðamerkurjökull glacier – a part of the larger Vatnajökull glacier – collapsed. In addition to the tragic loss of life, rescue crews initially searched for two individuals believed to be […] more

Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV),       27 November 2024 2:27 PM
Cold no match for keen campers

At the Hamrar campsite in Akureyri, the temperature was minus five when RÚV visited early in the morning. By then, some tourists who had camped there were already off on their daily adventures. Others had slept well in the frost but said it was especially useful to be able to go into the service building to have breakfast.
Bart Veldhuizen, from the Netherlands, is travelling with his girlfriend, had never been camping before visiting Iceland – but he has […] more

mbl.is,   27 November 2024 12:55 PM
Allocating quotas despite advice

The government has issued a 3,800-tonne quota for deep-sea beaked redfish in the current fishing year despite scientific advice that such fishing should not be conducted to protect the stock. more

Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV),       27 November 2024 11:03 AM
Diegó was "early Christmas present"

Diegó, one of Iceland's most popular cats, was stolen from his bed at the A4 shop in Skeifan.
Now found, he is back in the hands of his owners after a flurry of activity on social media.
“This happened on Saturday evening,” says Eygló Anna Gunnlaugsdóttir, a volunteer with Dýrfinna [Animal Finder], an organisation that helps reunite lost pets with their owners.
“The individual just walked in with a mask on, petted the cat once, […] more

Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV),       27 November 2024 10:25 AM
Democracy Party to "offer new choice"

Arnar Þór Jónsson founded the Lýðræðisflokkurinn [Democracy Party] only a month before the parliamentary elections, scheduled for next Saturday. Previously, he has worked as a lawyer, judge, and substitute member of parliament for the Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn [Independence Party]. He also ran for president in the last presidential election.
He was a guest on RÚV's Forystusætið yesterday evening.
Arnar Þór explains that he […] more

Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV),       27 November 2024 9:44 AM
Expect - or at least do not rule out - the unexpected

"I don’t know if these parties want to work together, but it is entirely on the cards that this could happen," Hafsteinn said on RÚV earlier, where he discussed opinion polls in the lead-up to the election, referring to the possibility of the Independence Party, Centre Party, and People's Party forming a government.
Hafsteinn mentioned that the difference between opinion polls now and 40 years ago is that it was easier to reach people in the […] more

Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV),       26 November 2024 4:40 PM
Reindeer chase horses through Eskifjörður

Residents of Eskifjörður were astonished yesterday when they saw what appeared to be a male reindeer chasing a herd of horses back and forth across the fjord. The horses ran as if their lives depended on it, while the reindeer gave chase, seemingly determined to catch them.
It is said that horses can be frightened by reindeer, at least some of them, becoming agitated just from the scent. The task of rounding up the horses fell to Jóhann Sverrisson, a […] more

mbl.is,   26 November 2024 4:00 PM
The northernmost crater is still active

The central and southern craters have most likely completely extinguished the eruption of the Sundhnúkagígar series. more