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In the years 1900–1910, several teams of sur-
veyors from the Danish Geological Survey in-
stitute travelled around Iceland, taking photos
and working on a map of the country. In 1985,
the Danish Geological Survey presented its Ice-
landic counterpart, Landmælingar Ísland, with
the Danes’ entire collection of 555 photographs
on glass plates.
The photos are a remarkable resource, both
for their unusual perspectives on Icelandic land-
scapes and towns as well as their documentation
of the surveyors’ ‘road-trips’ in Iceland.
We encourage everyone to browse the full
collection on lmi.is.
Danish Surveyors On A
Road Trip Around Iceland
42 The Reykjavík GrapevineIssue 07— 2014LEMÚRINN
Words
Vera Illugadóttir
Photos
Lemúrinn
Lemúrinn is an Icelandic web magazine (Icelandic for the native primate of Madagascar). A
winner of the 2012 Icelandic Web Awards, Lemurinn.is covers all things strange and interesting!
The surveyors set
up their camp.
Icelandic
family
A good surveyor needs
to be a skilled climber.
Reykjavík,
circa 1905.
Surveying Iceland’s
barren landscape.