Ooh, but it has one (sort of) in Kelly Link's fairytale adaptation "Prince Hat Underground" from her excellent short story collection "White Cat, Black Dog"
There's an otherworldly lightshow in the sky and an active lava situation and to my American eyes, I was still like, "And cheerful racial diversity in a swimming/bathing situation? This place really is magic." I hear there are ponies, too and the country loves and values artists.
It's crazy that people keep sharing this (obviously) fake picture when there's actually plenty of pictures of simultaneous eruptions and northern lights from Iceland's recent eruptions.
I would like to add a note that these decisions were far wiser than those of the shipping industry and the energy company committees. The intense desire to find a Northwest passage by any means possible, while profitable, was not smart.
Iceland was named by Flóki Vilgerðarströnd after seeing pack ice during his first winter at Barðaströnd. A name that few probably questioned after seeing Vatnajökull on the approach.
Greenland wasn't the whole island, but rather an Iceland-like green area near the coast.
The number of cities larger than Reykjavik and further north can be counted on one hand. The farthest north is Norilsk, Russia. It's about 5 degrees latitude further north.
I live in Finland, the sun sets at around 2pm at the moment here and rises around 10 am. This photo was taken on Christmas Day at 1:50pm. So yes, maybe not the exact same latitude but your latter 2 points still apply to all of the nordics + northern Russia etc.
The peak solar angle is just a couple degrees, so you get basically no direct sunlight at the solstice. BUT it takes such a low angle below the horizon that you get a lot of twilight glow. So talking about "sunrise" and "sunset" times isn't useful here.
Although in Reykjavik, the sunrise is over three hours later than it is in London right now. Which… isn’t fun. (I lived there for a while. The winter light was tough to deal with.)
Living at a similar latitude in Finland, blackout curtains mostly solve the "Sleeping in the summer" issue. Good blackout curtains hung correctly can basically cut out almost everything.
Do you get troll weather in Finland? When I was in Reykjavik, we’d often have blasters rain and grey skies all day. Then we’d be driving home from the cinema or something and the sun would be all I AM HERE. And blaze all night. Natch, it would naff off before we woke up.
I’m making a joke that the IAU, not planetary scientists, redefined “planet” in a wholly arbitrary way which per a strict application of the definition would rule out Jupiter as a planet.
A nebula is a diffuse cloud of interstellar dust & gas visible as luminous patches of light and darkness depending on absorption or reflection of how it emits light.
Hey, we have tuff, and some interesting subglacial-eruption-formed sediments. Indeed, windblown allophane from said eruptions is the scourge of farmers here, it binds all our phosphorus and makes our soil liquefy easily!
Omg TY! It’s such a good story because Iceland is bringing things back tho they needed the initial assistance & mandates & several generations. It’s still is a hopeful story with so many lessons learned & an example for many to follow.
Ha! I just work with a ton of sedimentalogists and thought it was funny they weren’t included. I did see some sediments in Iceland last summer, but there were more interesting geologic things. :)
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It's crazy that people keep sharing this (obviously) fake picture when there's actually plenty of pictures of simultaneous eruptions and northern lights from Iceland's recent eruptions.
Re: penguins, an ornithologist was demanding auks, so puffins were chosen as the compromise. ;)
It kind of makes me feel okay about the rental market in California after all.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/us/up-to-100-people-stranded-on-ice-in-northern-minnesota-lake/index.html
They know how to fight back!
"The HVAC bill for installing the Gulf Stream was enormous."
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Iceland was named by Flóki Vilgerðarströnd after seeing pack ice during his first winter at Barðaströnd. A name that few probably questioned after seeing Vatnajökull on the approach.
Greenland wasn't the whole island, but rather an Iceland-like green area near the coast.
(5° is the same distance as between NYC and Raleigh)
Murmansk is nearly as far north and 2,5x Reykjavík's size.
Archangelsk is the same latitude and 3x the size.
Of cities over 60°N, Reykjavík is #18.
Starts getting dark between 3 and 4 pm.
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Southern Finland
The peak solar angle is just a couple degrees, so you get basically no direct sunlight at the solstice. BUT it takes such a low angle below the horizon that you get a lot of twilight glow. So talking about "sunrise" and "sunset" times isn't useful here.
That we’re a planet? 🌎
It’s no longer called a galaxy.
https://bsky.app/profile/nafnlaus.bsky.social/post/3jyj5xnih5z2s
That said, the shell beds near Tungulending are pretty cool :)
Dude even wrote his name in the fjords, if you look carefully you can see it.
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