The third coast guard ves­sel by the same name arrived in Ice­land in 1951. It was con­struct­ed in Aal­borg in …

This church belongs to the Vatns­fiord benefice in the Isafiord dean­ery. Unads­dalur is a val­ley and a syn­ony…

The east­ern­most point of the coun­try is Ger­pir (13°30’V), the north­ern­most Hraun­haf­nar­tan­gi (66°32’N), the …

About 330 species of birds have been record­ed in Ice­land. Of these only about 85 nest or have attempt­ed to …

The Ice­landic Sheep­dog is Iceland’s only native dog. The Nordic set­tlers, who start­ed arriv­ing in 874 AD, b…

Doc­u­ment­ed sources con­firm that the set­tlers orig­i­nal­ly brought the domes­ti­cat­ed ani­mals of Ice­land to the …