Articles

Danger in Grindavík

Editorial
The Icelandic Meteorological Office not only makes weather forecasts and does the aviation weather services for Iceland and the sea area around the country, but...

Ingólfur’s Street

Editorial
The first resident of Iceland and Reykjavík, Ingólfur Arnarson, came from Norway and settled here in 874. He came to Iceland seven years prior to investigate th...

Picturesque mountains

Editorial
A few years ago, a survey was conducted among Icelanders, which mountain was the most beautiful mountain. Herðubreið won, which is not surprising. A beautiful m...

The Arctic Circle

Editorial
The Arctic Circle The Arctic Circle conference is currently taking place in Reykjavík. For three days, 700 people, scientists, politicians and ordinary peopl...

Currently in Iceland

Editorial
Currently in Iceland It's this time of the year. My experience as a photographer for more than four decades is that the aurora is most active around the fall...

Vikings and Settlement

Editorial
Vikings and Settlement At the time when the Irish had discovered Iceland and started regular sailings there, boatbuilding and skill in navigation were also d...

Hjörleifur & the history

Editorial
Hjörleifur & the history Iceland's history would probably have been different if the foster brother of the first settler, Ingólfur Arnarson, married to h...

Fifty five years of beauty

Editorial
Fifty five years of beauty The other day, it had been 55 years since Norræna Húsið (The Nordic House) opened in Reykjavík. The Nordic House, the first collec...

Looking towards the sea 

Editorial
Looking towards the sea  The fishing industry has been, and still is, one of the most powerful pillars of the Icelandic economy. Forty years ago, in 1983, th...

Thinking of everything

Editorial
Thinking of everything The Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management , which reports to the Commissioner of the National Police, was establishe...

Kópavogur, The Second City

Editorial
Kópavogur, The Second City It is questionable whether Hamraborg in the center of Kópavogur, the second largest municipality in Iceland, is high rising or bea...

Torfajökull volcano system

Editorial
One of the many beautifully formed craters in Vatnaöldur in the Torfajökull region Torfajökull volcano system The Torfajökull volcano system has been qui...

Réttir

Editorial
Réttir – The Yearly Sheep Round-Up! In September the majority of farmers across the country will be herding their sheep from the plateaus of Iceland, which h...

Jökulsárlón

Editorial
Jökulsárlón Jökulsárlón is a unique lagoon, in and around Vatnajökull in Austur- Skaftafellsýsla, part of Vatnajökull National Park in the southeast. Vatnajö...

Harbor construction in Reykjavik

Editorial
Harbor construction in Reykjavik (1913-1917) The Reykjavik harbor construction was the most expensive construction Icelanders had undertaken. It included a r...