The Icelandic Coast Guard patrol vessel Þór caught up with the Bandero, the vessel operated by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, west of Iceland yesterday evening. The Coast Guard vessel is now in the vicinity of the ship and is shadowing it.

The Súlur rescue team, currently on highland patrol in Landmannalaugar, was called out on Saturday after a hiker fell on the trail between Landmannalaugar and Hrafntinnusker.

"They were wonderful guests, and they climbed the cliffs of Drangey Island as if it were nothing," says Viggó Jónsson, known as the "Lord of Drangey," in Skagafjörður.

The fissure that runs through Grindavík, known as Stamphólsgjá, at one point split the town in two. The fissure has now been partially filled.

“I first saw this just two days ago on the Bakland ferðaþjónusta Facebook page. A tour guide had posted that he had noticed some rocks he didn't recognize,” says Þórir Níels Kjartansson, former managing director of the well-known Ví...

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