News from Iceland
Icelanders Stock Up on Alcohol for Merchants’ Weekend Icelandic liquor stores sold 767,000 litres of alcohol last year in the week leading up to Verslunarmannahelgi (Merchants’ Weekend), a long weekend celebrated in early August in Iceland. Around 137,000...
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Road 36 through Þingvellir National Park will be closed from tomorrow, July 31, until October. The two-month closure is due to repairs and will apply to the section of the road which passes through the park. RÚV reported first. Þingvellir National...
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A new 150-room Courtyard by Mariott hotel will open next year at Keflavík International Airport, RÚV reports. Developers begin breaking ground today for the building. The hotel is expected to open in the fall of 2019. Spokesmen for the project have stated...
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An enormous landslide on Fagraskógarfjall mountain in Hítardalur in West Iceland took place early on Saturday morning, flooding a well-known salmon fishing river with mud and rock and almost completely changing the face of the landscape RÚV reports. The...
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A polar bear has been spotted on the remote plain of Melrakkaslétta in Northeast Iceland, RUV reports. Police in the region issued a statement about the sighting on their Facebook page on Monday night. At the time of writing, this sighting had not yet been...
