News in English
Provided by goIceland, Iceland Review, Icenews and Reykjavík Grapevine
This year’s free English-language travel guide Around Iceland has been released, the 38th year in a row. The guide is also published in Icelandic and German and is distributed in 100,000 copies to the country’s most frequented tourist destinations.
An international group of divers recently traveled to Þingvellir National Park in Southwest Iceland to explore this unique diving destination. A Polish guide, Michail Zinieuricz, who works for the DIVE.is, led the team of North Americans and a French couple.
Iceland’s northernmost island is no longer one island. In a recent surveillance excursion to the Kolbeinsey, the Icelandic Coast Guard discovered that the island is now divided in two.
Iceland is among the top five OECD-countries where immigrants help to boost the economy and increase nation-wide production by approximately 1 percent, according to a new report from the OECD.
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| Egilsstaðir |
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| London |
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| US dollar | USD | 119,890 | |
| Euro | EUR | 160,440 | |
| Pound sterling | GBP | 187,390 | |
| Canadian dollar | CAD | 117,470 | |
| Danish krona | DKK | 21,507 | |
| Norweigan krona | NOK | 20,852 | |
| Swedish krona | SEK | 18,503 | |
| Swiss franc | CHF | 130,360 | |
| Japanese yen | JPY | 1,257 | |
| Special Drawing Rights | XDR | 183,000 |