Tag: Fjord

  • Denmark to pump billions into the besieged aquatic environment

    Denmark to pump billions into the besieged aquatic environment

    The initiatives include: – Analysis and improvement of water quality in coastal waters using newly developed ecosystem models that calculate nutrient numbers. – New quality indices have been developed to include benthic algae (Phytobenthos) when assessing waterway conditions. Bottom-dwelling algae, benthic animals, visibility depth and oxygen saturation will be included in the condition assessments of…

  • Amazing company of elves

    Amazing company of elves

    On Tuesday, there was a candlelit walk up Álfaborg hill in Borgarfjörður Eystri in the eastern fjords. It is an annual event that has been organized for 20 years during Advent by the Primary School in Borgarfjörður. This year, during a candle walk, a fundraiser was also organized for the student travel fund. About 80…

  • Warnings may turn orange in the east

    Warnings may turn orange in the east

    The Yellow Warning will be effective today in the East Fjords and Southeast Iceland at 12:00 p.m. 20. A storm is expected which may lead to disruptions to transport in some parts of the country. In the north of the country there is a slight non-atmospheric one that is shifting to the southeast and today…

  • A crater on Mars named after a town in Iceland

    A crater on Mars named after a town in Iceland

    The International Astronomical Union Working Group on the Nomenclature of the Planetary System approved the name Flateyri for a crater on Mars. Flateyri is a town in the Westfjords. Icelandic astronomy expert Sævar Helgi Bragason, editor of the Stjörnufræðivefurinn website and director of the Seltjarnarnes astronomy society, explains that the person who proposed the name…

  • Fatal accident in the Westfjords

    Fatal accident in the Westfjords

    This morning, around 10.13 am on the Örlygshafnarvegur road near Látravatn, a random passerby approached an overturned car with a dead driver in it. The police in the Westfjords inform about this in a press release. The car seems to have slipped off the road and tumbled at least once until it stopped. Police officers…

  • Easier access to the Westfjords in winter

    Easier access to the Westfjords in winter

    In Strandavegur, from January to March, more snowplows will leave the coastal road that passes through the municipality of Árneshreppur. Snow will be cleared twice a week, weather permitting, according to a press release released by the government on Thursday. This project is the result of a collaboration between the Icelandic Institute for Regional Development,…

  • Westfjords the best travel destination in the world

    Westfjords the best travel destination in the world

    According to the publisher of travel guides Lonely Planet, the Westfjords rank first at the top of the 2022 Regions to Visit. This prestigious title is called “Best in Travel” and covers countries, regions and cities. A representative from the Vestfjarðarstofa Regional Development Office says Lonely Planet’s selection will bring the world’s attention to the…

  • Truck overturns by ferry 150 meters from Hvalpsund

    Tuesday morning, a truck was rolled by a ferry and down into the Limfjord. It writes Ekstra Bladet. This is the Hvalpsund-Sundsøre ferry, which sails between Hvalpsund and Sundsøre. It is also called Mary. No one was injured. To Ritzau, the North Jutland Emergency Management Agency says that the truck overturned in the water about…

  • The FDA approves the Kerecis implantable fish skin product

    The FDA approves the Kerecis implantable fish skin product

    According to mbl.is, Kerecis, an Icelandic company that pioneered the use of fish skin for tissue regeneration and protection, received approval this week from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market this new product. It is the fourth Kerecis product approved by the FDA. It is intended for use on large wounds and…

  • The weather in the country – basically normal

    The weather in the country – basically normal

    The Meteorological Institute predicts an increase in rainfall and an increase in winds from the east, up to 10–18 m / s in the afternoon. Along the south coast from 18 to 23 m / s, with gusts over 35 m / s below Eyjafjöll, Öræfi and Kjalarnes. Driving on mountain roads can be difficult.…

  • The silver team striker became a professional

    The silver team striker became a professional

    One of the team’s strikers, Jørn Sørensen, became known for elegant dribbling, speed and good passes. On Sunday, October 17, he turns 85 years old. This summer’s football sensation started with hitting one of the biggest football nations. The opening match against Argentina ended 3-2. Jørn Sørensen came on the scoreboard in this match. Jørn…

  • How killer whales hunt herring

    How killer whales hunt herring

    East of Iceland, where herring is fished, a lot has happened lately. Not only humans want spines, they are also hunted by orcs. Such hunting was observed in Héraðsflói Bay in the northernmost part of the eastern fjords last week, reports Morgunblaðið. Killer whales often follow the fishing boats. Individual specimens line up in a…

  • Helicopter rescues capsized sailors off Kalundborg

    It was one of the two who managed to call the police. At first it sounded like the partner was not in sight. – Shortly afterwards, the connection disappears. Maybe it’s because there has been too much water in the mobile phone, says Boye Rasmussen. Based on the report, a sea rescue operation with assistance…

  • FACTS: The Queen celebrates the 100th anniversary of her grandfather’s visit to Greenland

    See the program for the trip here: Friday: * Arrival at 12.30 in Ilulissat. * Visit to the newly inaugurated Ilulissat Icefjord Center, which disseminates knowledge about the surrounding Arctic nature. * Sailing trip on the ice fjord at Ilulissat. Saturday: * The Queen will meet descendants of the participants of the fifth Thule expedition…

  • FACTS: The Queen celebrates the 100th anniversary of her grandfather’s visit to Greenland

    See the program for the trip here: Friday: * Arrival at 12.30 in Ilulissat. * Visit to the newly inaugurated Ilulissat Icefjord Center, which disseminates knowledge about the surrounding Arctic nature. * Sailing trip on the ice fjord at Ilulissat. Saturday: * The Queen will meet descendants of the participants of the fifth Thule expedition…

  • The Queen embarks on a corona-exposed visit to Greenland

    It was her grandfather, Christian 10., who was the first monarch to visit Greenland back in 1921. In connection with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of that event, the queen will be presented with both objects and pictures from that time. However, the trip starts in the West Greenlandic city of Ilulissat, where she…

  • The Queen embarks on a corona-exposed visit to Greenland

    It was her grandfather, Christian X, who was the first monarch to visit Greenland back in 1921. In connection with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of that event, the queen will be presented with both objects and images from that time. However, the trip starts in the West Greenlandic city of Ilulissat, where she…

  • The Þór Coast Guard ship will remove the bodies of the beached pilot whales

    The Þór Coast Guard ship will remove the bodies of the beached pilot whales

    Icelandic coastguard ship Þór will arrive next week in Árneshreppur on the northern coast of the Westfjords, RÚV reports, to clear more than fifty pilot whales from the beach. The Þór would get rid of them far enough in the sea that the tide would not bring them back to shore. Whales stranded in Árneshreppur…

  • Marie Lundström invites to a close reading of Abdulrazak Gurnah – Nobel Laureate in Literature 2021

    Marie Lundström invites to a close reading of Abdulrazak Gurnah – Nobel Laureate in Literature 2021

    An in-depth study of the Nobel Laureate’s authorship with Anne Swärd, author and member of the Swedish Academy, Maria Olaussen, professor of English at the University of Gothenburg, and Stefan Helgesson, professor of English at Stockholm University. In addition, of course, we hear the Nobel Laureate himself, Abdulrazak Gurnah, interviewed by Gunnar Bolin shortly after…

  • Iceland’s fertility rate is falling

    Iceland’s fertility rate is falling

    Currently, the fertility rate is almost the same as in Denmark and Sweden, i.e. around 1.7 children per woman. It is assumed that in order to maintain the population over the long term, every woman will need to have 2.1 children during her lifetime. When Iceland’s fertility was at its highest in 1960, statistically every…

  • Threats in Seyðisfjörður due to the risk of landslides

    Threats in Seyðisfjörður due to the risk of landslides

    The National Police Commissioner, in consultation with the East Iceland Police Commissioner, decided to declare a civil protection level in Seyðisfjörður due to the risk of landslides. After heavy rainfall in recent days, the Meteorological Institute’s measuring devices that monitor the slope above Seyðisfjörður have begun to show the displacement of a large piece of…

  • Blue parties: The government moves in agricultural negotiations

    – We have looked at the draft that we have received. We have some improvement proposals for that, says Liberal Party chairman Jakob Ellemann-Jensen. – We have sent them to the government. We must then discuss them with the government. The Conservatives’ chairman, Søren Pape Poulsen, believes that the negotiations in recent days have moved…

  • Another hundred emergency calls

    Another hundred emergency calls

    During the storm that raged yesterday in the north and west of the country, the rescuers set off for another hundred emergency calls. Many of them concerned people who drove the car on summer tires despite the bad weather warnings. The orange weather alert was in effect until yesterday evening in Faxaflói, Breiðafjörður and the…

  • Snow blizzards in most parts of Iceland

    Snow blizzards in most parts of Iceland

    The Icelandic Meteorological Institute has issued weather alerts for much of the country today. In Faxaflói, in West Iceland, a Yellow Weather Alert will apply from 2 p.m. to midnight. This does not include the capital area. Rain or snowfall is forecast. Bad road conditions are expected. A yellow weather alert was in effect today…

  • Arson convict – ran after witnesses with chef’s knife

    Arson convict – ran after witnesses with chef’s knife

    He stabbed the man in the chest, but the assassination attempt failed as other witnesses averted the attack. At the same time, he also threatened another man that he was not afraid to use the knife and ran towards him with the knife raised above his head. On Monday afternoon, the Court in Sønderborg decided…

  • More than 20 trees felled and bothered North Zealand traffic

    The last message about felled trees was received at 22.31 and was about a tree that had fallen over a lane on the Helsingør motorway at Nivå. In addition to fallen trees, the North Zealand Police received a report of a fallen lamppost. It happened on Nordmandsvej in Skibby in Hornsherred, which is the peninsula…

  • Strong winds cause ferries to cancel departures

    During the day, the autumn’s first real windy weather is expected to move over Denmark, and on Thursday morning, according to the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), the wind has started to pick up in West Jutland. This means canceled ferry departures in several places in the country. For example, several ferry departures between Jutland and…

  • Violent fire at the residence has cost one person his life

    Violent fire at the residence has cost one person his life

    A person has been found dead after a large fire at a residence on Møn on Wednesday. It informs the police. The message about the flames at Kernen by Hårbølle came in a little after 05.00 on Wednesday morning. It was a neighbor who sounded the alarm, Deputy Police Inspector Søren Ravn-Nielsen has stated. The…

  • Violent fire at the residence has cost a person his life

    Violent fire at the residence has cost a person his life

    A person has been found dead after a large fire at a residence on Møn on Wednesday. It informs the police. The message about the flames at Kernen by Hårbølle came in a little after 05.00 on Wednesday morning. It was a neighbor who sounded the alarm, Deputy Police Inspector Søren Ravn-Nielsen has stated. All…

  • Chemical spills after a fire at a salmon factory are under control

    During Friday, samples of the bathing water in the fjord were carried out, and this has contributed to the potentially polluted area being reduced, it appears. The substance turns the water red and can cause damage if you come in contact with it. But the police district has not yet received reports of people being…

  • Large fire at salmon factory has created corrosive chemical emissions

    In connection with the fire at a salmon factory in Hvide Sande on Wednesday evening, a chemical spill occurred in the sea area. The chemicals have been released into the fjord and have colored the water red. It can be corrosive to the touch. The Central and West Jutland Police inform this on Twitter. Police…

  • 40 people evacuated during a fire in a salmon factory in Hvide Sande

    – We gathered them in a swimming pool nearby, and from there they are transported on to places where they can spend the night, says the chief of guards. Around 02 o’clock the wind has turned and the smoke is blowing north in the direction of the fjord and away from the city. The fire…

  • Cargo ship ran aground in the Limfjord – captain fined

    The captain faces a fine because the incident was first reported early Sunday morning. It is a requirement that the captain notify the maritime authorities immediately. At 5:53 a.m., police became aware of the grounding when the Maritime Operations Center Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC) contacted it. Due to the slow notification, the police became…