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A group of 23 tourists from several countries were exploring an ice cave at the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier in southeastern Iceland when the incident occurred Sunday, according to the broadcaster.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Police in Iceland called off a search for missing persons under a glacier on Monday and said earlier reports that two tourists had been trapped there were wrong. An extensive ...
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The documentary includes scenes from a glacier calving event that took place at Jacobshavn Isbræ in Greenland, lasting 75 minutes, the longest such event ever captured on film. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Two EIS videographers waited several weeks in a small tent overlooking the glacier and, finally, witnessed 7.4 cubic kilometres (1.8 cu mi) of ice crashing ...
The 1950 Geysir air crash (Icelandic: Geysisslysið [ˈceiːsɪsˌstlɪːsɪθ], "the Geysir accident") was a plane crash that occurred on 14 September 1950 when a Douglas C-54 Skymaster, christened Geysir, crashed on the southeastern parts of Bárðarbunga on the Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland.
Jackson is a three-time U.S. Fulbright Fellow, completing research fellowships in Turkey and Iceland. [3] On her second Fulbright-funded project, she worked in Höfn, Iceland, looking at how climate change affected glacier communities. [11] During her PhD she became a National Geographic Explorer. [12] She has served in the Peace Corps in ...
In pictures: A view of cracks on a road due to volcanic activity near Grindavik 06:30 , Namita Singh A view of cracks, emerged on a road due to volcanic activity, near Grindavik, Iceland 13 ...
Iceland as seen from space, with Vatnajökull appearing as the largest white area to the lower right. Vatnajökull (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈvahtnaˌjœːkʏtl̥] ⓘ, literally "Glacier of Lakes"; sometimes translated as Vatna Glacier in English) is the largest and most voluminous ice cap in Iceland, and the second largest in area in Europe after the Severny Island ice cap of Novaya Zemlya ...