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Volcano Watch: A Closer Look At Katla
Hvolsvöllur is a sleepy village in south Iceland, between Hella and Seljalandsfoss. It’s a somewhat forgettable, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it settlement of just a few small hangars and stores, a bank, and a handful houses, all whipped by dust from the steady tourist traffic of…
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Hekla May Be Ready To Erupt
New measurements of the famous south Iceland volcano indicate that it may be ready to erupt, and its internal pressures are greater than they were before the last two eruptions. “Hekla is certainly dangerous,” geophysics professor Páll Einarsson told Vísir. “We could…
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Hekla: The Medieval Gate To Hell
Elevation: 1491 m Ascent time: 3.5-5.0 hrs Length: 7-8 km Map: 57 Elevation gain: 1040 m Iceland’s best-known volcano Hekla (1491 m) proudly stands as a dominant backdrop of the vast Southern Lowlands. It is a centre of a volcanic system, containing…
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Airwaves Day One: Terror In The Chest, Taking It In The Ass & Unexpected Horse Dick
So I’m just back from a four day trip around the south of Iceland, when I wake up from a deep ten-hour sleep, aching head to toe from walking and hiking and being in a car for a long period of time.…
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A Shadow In The Dark
Earlier in 2015, at the Sónar Reykjavík festival, a solo musician known simply as Hekla walked out into the dimly lit crucible of Harpa’s Kaldalón theatre. Beginning to play wordlessly in near-darkness, and using just her voice, a couple of effects pedals…
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SMOKE THE CROWS. It’s a Sónar Podcast Feat. dj flugvél og geimskip!
This week’s studio guest in our second Sónar Reykjavík Podcast is Steinunn, the pilot of the wonderful one-woman-band dj flugvél og geimskip. She came in to pick some songs and to tell us about how the bottom of the ocean is actually…
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Bring Your Mobile To Hekla In Case Of Eruption
Police are asking people hiking Hekla to bring their mobile phones so that they can be forewarned in the event of an imminent volcanic eruption, reports Vísir. It is believed that an eruption is impending and may happen on short notice. The volcano…
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Horsing Around In Steinholt
In the kitchen at Steinsholt, Kari Torkildsen is stirring up a delicious lamb soup. She and her husband, Gunnar Marteinsson, are the owners of Steinsholt Riding Tours. They are making sure everything is ready for the company of thirteen Danes that they…
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Hekla’s Volcanic Heart Of Darkness
People often set aside the interior of Iceland as “other” from the rest of the country: it’s a barren, uninhabitable desert, accessible only by certain vehicles at certain times of the year. Before going on my jeep tour, the only thing I…
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South Shore Adventure: Chasing Waterfalls
Although the Golden Circle tour may include the most popular places of interest with Gullfoss, Þingvellir and the geysers, there are still a lot of things left to see in Iceland’s countryside. A great opportunity to see a whole bunch of beautiful…
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Proud Everywhere – Pride For Everyone
Anyway, now, some 15 years later, we have a huge event called Gay Pride and it has become the third largest event in Iceland with some 20 to 30 thousand people attending every year. And that’s a lot for a Gay event…