Iceland review - 2015, Qupperneq 6

4 ICELAND REVIEW
Will it only be the 100 Syrian refugees the
government has agreed to provide
protection to this year, or will Iceland welcome
more than 1,000 in the near future?
Iceland, along with the rest of Europe, is facing
its biggest humanitarian crisis since WWII: how
to deal with the exodus of people from war-torn
Syria and Iraq into the continent. Zoë looks at
the issue here in Iceland (page 60).
She also talks to Jón Björgvinsson, who has
been following conflict and hazards around the
globe for three decades with his film camera
(page 38).
And talking of catastrophes: Eygló speaks to
geochemist Sigurður Reynir Gíslason (page 65),
about the environmental pressure from the 2014-
2015 Holuhraun eruption, when roughly 12 million
tons of sulfur dioxide were emitted into the
atmosphere—more than the total annual SO2
emissions of Europe. And on the subject of
Holuhraun coverage, Iceland Review, both in print
and online, was nominated for the Icelandic
Ministry for the Environment and Natural
Resources’ Media Award, presented on the Day
of Icelandic Nature, September 16, 2015.
Talented young photographer Valdimar
Thorlacius (page 44) shows us his latest project,
and we check in on two super-strong über women
(page 32), Fanney Hauksdóttir and Katrín Tanja
Davíðsdóttir.
We also go for a drive to Snæfellsnes peninsula
(page 22) to see the light, we celebrate with ‘our
boys’: the Icelandic football team (page 72), who
will play in a major tournament, the Euro 2016 in
France, for the first time next year.
As well as all this, we also find time to travel
around the country in a bus in just 43 hours (page
54) to experience Iceland in a nutshell—a few
seconds at a time.
And what a trip! The journey would be a great
way to welcome new settlers, and give them a
brief glimpse of what Iceland truly is.
A sparsely-populated island, in the middle of
nowhere.
Páll Stefánsson
ps@icelandreview.com
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bath on top of a hot spring and afterwards relax in the open air thermal baths.
Our café serves locally grown delicacies.
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CORRECTION: In the 2015 April-May issue of Iceland Review (0215), the poem ‘Northern Lights’ (page 92) was mistakenly attributed to Matthías
Jochumsson instead of Jóhannes úr Kötlum. The English version of the poem used by Iceland Review is Bernard Scudder’s translation, published
in Icelandic Poetry (2012). In that book, the poem’s author is mistakenly listed as Matthías Jochumsson. We apologize for this error.