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Beached Pilot Whales In Álftafjörður
Náttúrustofa Vesturlands, the Icelandic Institute of Natural History, recieved a call from the police yesterday about a group of pilot whales that were found beached in Álftafjörður in Snæfellsnes. According to a report by RÚV, a group of biologists, two from Náttúrustofa,…
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Top Five Videos We Made This Year (And Loved)
Icelanders are truly storm-people. So we gave our photo editor, Art Bicnick, a simple task when the worst storm in years in Iceland was predicted: Go out into the storm, and catch the windy vibe as well as these stormy gusts that…
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Scientist Bizarrely Blames Whale Watching For Beaching Of Whales
The Board of Whale Watching in Iceland has called for Sverrir Daníel Halldórsson of the Marine Research Institute (MRI) to retract his statement that whale watching may be to blame for recent occurrences of beached whales. Sverrir made his comments on RÚV,…
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Photos: Mass Pilot Whale Death in Snæfellsnes, West Iceland
A mass stranding of over 50 pilot whales occurred last week in West Iceland’s Snæfellsnes peninsula. The event occurred on the sand island Gamlaeyri along Löngufjörur. The whales were spotted by David Schwarzhans, a pilot for Reykjavík Helicopters, and his guests during…