Days of camping without power and Internet access interrupted the story of my trans-Icelandic journey with Nat Geo Student Expeditions. Now I'm back on the grid, and the saga continues...
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We get our first real taste of ice on Iceland's southern coast at Solheimajökull. (The last part of the name is pronounced yokel, as in "local yokel," and means "glacier" in Icelandic.)
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Greenland is famously buried beneath an enormous glacier, so largely white, while Iceland is largely green. That said, there's still plenty of ice on Iceland—for the moment, at least. Vatnajökull, the world's third-largest glacier, covers much of Iceland's southeast quarter. Smaller (but plenty impressive) glaciers dot the rest of the island.
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July 5, 2009 5:26 PM
Hello once more from Iceland. I'm newly arrived here with Nat Geo Student Expeditions, sharing highlights of our trek. Welcome! I met up with the students I'd be traveling with for the next ten days in Reykjavik late last week, fired up and ready to roll.
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Late-night twilight greetings from Iceland! I'm here with Nat Geo Student Expeditions and a group of (I asked what adjective to use to describe them, and they chose) extraordinary teens. We've come to photograph this island, to study the wild geology that put it here just south of the Arctic Circle. We're documenting the effects of climate change—the melting away of glaciers that have covered Iceland for millennia and that gave it its very name.
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