The Icelandair flight from RDU to Iceland landed at the Keflavik airport early Friday morning. From there it was a full day of taking in the sights and history of Reykjavík. The first stop on the tour ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Michael Pye HOW ICELAND CHANGED THE WORLD The Big History of a Small Island By Egill Bjarnason It ...

Viking explorer Leif Erikson is remembered with a large statue in front of the landmark church Hallgrimskirkja in Reykjavik, Iceland. Thanks to famous tales of discovery involving the likes of Erik ...

It is one of those geography facts that feels almost like a trick question: Iceland is relatively green, while Greenland is mostly buried under ice. Travellers may expect the opposite, but the truth ...

Iceland is the only inhabited island in the world where tectonic plates and ocean ridge are visible on land. This makes Iceland a real hotspot in geological context. It sits atop the Mid-Atlantic ...

An Icelandic archaeologist believes that Gaelic-speaking settlers from Ireland and Scotland had a profound impact on Iceland's language, landscape, and literature. Thorvaldur Fridriksson's new book ...