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...
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...
A journey through colours and sound
In Harpa, music and conference hall at the end of the Reykjavík harbour, Hringátt/Circuleight is a current exhibition. An e...
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
The Arctic Circle conference is currently taking place in Reykjavík. For three days, 700 people, scientists, politicians and ordinary peopl...
Hafnartorg & Hallveig + Ingólfur
Árni Óla (1888-1979), writer and journalist, is the person who most likely knew the history and origins of Reykjavík's p...
Icelandic Times checks out Fjöruborðið Restaurant
Have you strolled along the beautiful shore on Stokkseyri's beach? Have you been spellbound by the white fo...
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
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
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
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
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
The Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management , which reports to the Commissioner of the National Police, was establishe...
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...
One of the many beautifully formed craters in Vatnaöldur in the Torfajökull region
Torfajökull volcano system
The Torfajökull volcano system has been qui...
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...
Laugarvatn’s Lindin Restaurant & Café Bistro
Lindin Restaurant & Bistro Café, located on the banks of Lake Laugarvatn, has a firm foundation of culin...
Jökulsárlón
Jökulsárlón is a unique lagoon, in and around Vatnajökull in Austur- Skaftafellsýsla, part of Vatnajökull National Park in the southeast. Vatnajö...
The first custom-built freezer vessel in Iceland (1927)
Bruarfoss, built-in 1927 was the first cargo ship constructed especially with freezing capabilities f...
Harbor construction in Reykjavik (1913-1917)
The Reykjavik harbor construction was the most expensive construction Icelanders had undertaken. It included a r...