Arctic Region News

THE Ministry of Defence has confirmed that Perham Down based Captain Ben Babington-Browne from 22 Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers, died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Monday.

Every once in a while you find someone doing something that makes you stop and think to yourself, "That's cool!" Jon Gunnar Benjaminsson is a person who's doing just that.

Click on the picture to watch an audio slideshow about Strandir in the West Fjords, one of the most remote regions in Iceland.

Perhaps you've fancied the idea of visiting Iceland. Or you've been there and remain enchanted, trying to find cultural happenings in which you can pretend you are in the eccentricities of the midnight sun.

For the Daily Gleaner Make room for little brother. First, 17-year-old viola player David Murray got the nod to join the Long Island Youth Orchestra's North Atlantic Circle Tour and was busy preparing to join rehearsals in New York in mid-June. Music: Violist David Murray, left, along with his brother, violinist Christopher Murray, right, take a ...

Recently, whales have often been spotted in Skjalfandafloi Bay. Large whales, such as humpback and blue whale, are the most prominent.

Watch Iceland Review Online 's special video feature, an interview with managing director of Iceland Music Export Anna Hildur HildibrandsdA3ttir discussing how music is leading Iceland out of the crisis.

The 2009 International Hydropower Association World Congress is currently taking place at Hotel Hilton Nordica in Reykjavik.

A cruise ship carrying 848 passengers from Iceland is being detained in New York Harbor after a routine safety inspection detected a small hole in its hull.

From SkagafjA rdur. View of Drangey island. Photo by PA ll StefA nsson. The NA staff members notified the North West Iceland Nature Center.

Greenland, the world's biggest island, made an important step towards its independence on June 21.

NUUK, Greenland - The thing about being from Greenland, said Susan Gudmundsdottir Johnsen, is that many outsiders seem to have no clue where it actually is.

Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, according to new findings by paleoclimatologists at the University at Buffalo.

Greenland gives Denmark the cold shoulder. But would it ever be viable as a country? Reuters THIS year's summer solstice is a momentous one for Greenland, the huge and sparsely-populated Arctic island that has been run by Denmark since the 18th century.

An aerial view taken on August 30, 2007 of the town of Ilulissat, Greenland. Greenland will take a major stride on Sunday toward independence from Denmark, which has endorsed the adoption of a new system of self-government that gives the 60,000, mostly-Inuit residents of the worlda TMs largest island greater control over natural resources and ...

June 08 18:00 Indian director K.S. Ravikumar has chosen Iceland as the location for some of the love and action scenes in his new movie Adhavan starring Tamil superstars Suriya and Nayanthara.

As the climate warms and the sun ceases to set, the summer solstice that marks the experience of playing golf in Iceland is special and worth the visit.

This is the story of how, after a series of failed attempts, Freyr and I gradually became friends.

In better times, Nina Bjork, one of Iceland's fashion glitterati, would be busy styling photo shoots for the island's top design houses.

A gray area between the state of war and peace has emerged over the past few years.