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Learning Insular Nordic Languages: Comparative Perspectives on Migrants’ Experiences Learning Faroese and Icelandic

open access: yesNordic Journal of Migration Research, 2022
This article explores migrants’ language learning experiences in two small language communities in the West Nordic Region. We provide a comparative perspective based on an online survey and ethnographic interviews conducted in Iceland and qualitative ...
Lara Hoffmann, Anna-Elisabeth Holm
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Running Wild: Environmental Attitudes of Long-Distance Runners in the Icelandic Highlands

open access: yesMountain Research and Development, 2021
An increasing number of sports events are taking place in wilderness and mountain areas. The Laugavegur Ultra Marathon (LUM) is one such event. It follows the 55-km (34.2-mile) route of the Laugavegur trail in the southern Icelandic highlands.
Rannveig Ólafsdóttir   +2 more
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The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge

open access: yesEarth-Science Reviews, 2019
The breakup of Laurasia to form the Northeast Atlantic Realm was the culmination of a long period of tectonic unrest extending back to the Late Palaeozoic. Breakup was prolonged and complex and disintegrated an inhomogeneous collage of cratons sutured by
G. Foulger
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Icelandic chapter in the Polish book: a narrative perspective on Polish migration to Iceland

open access: yesWrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej, 2016
The paper presents a narrative perspective on Polish migration to Iceland based on one example of a woman, called Irena. Her biography served for an anthropological analysis used in biographical approach in social sciences with the assumption that the ...
Helga Ólafs , Anna Wojtyńska
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Monitoring of Icelandic plate movement with GNSS method and GPS signal jamming effects in Iceland

open access: yesReports on Geodesy and Geoinformatics, 2023
Jamming is electromagnetic radiation or reflection that impairs the function of electronic instruments and equipment or communication tools. Intentionally disrupting or interfering with GPS signals, which are used for positioning, navigation, and timing,
Pırtı Atınç   +2 more
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Case-based studies: a critical pedagogy of place in international education in Iceland

open access: yesEducation in the North, 2013
This paper examines the pedagogy of a first-year university course, Educational settings, in the International Studies in Education Programme at the University of Iceland.
Allyson Macdonald, Auður Pálsdóttir
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Trust in Ultima Thules: Social Capital and Renewable Energy Development in Iceland and Greenland

open access: yesАрктика и Север, 2020
Iceland — an independent republic — and Greenland — an autonomous country within Denmark — represent two nations with similar geographical, economic, and historical backgrounds.
Aliaksei PATONIA
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Turf Building in Iceland – Past, Present, and Future

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2023
For a millennium, turf was the primary building material in Iceland. It was used for dwellings, outhouses, boundary walls, raised roads, and other man-made structures.
Zoëga Guðný   +2 more
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Ancient genomes from Iceland reveal the making of a human population

open access: yesScience, 2018
Founder effects in modern populations The genomes of ancient humans can reveal patterns of early human migration (see the Perspective by Achilli et al.). Iceland has a genetically distinct population, despite relatively recent settlement (∼1100 years ago)
S. Ebenesersdóttir   +29 more
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Morphology of the Reykjanes ridge junction with the rift zones of Iceland

open access: yesВестник Камчатской региональной ассоциации "Учебно-научный центр". Серия: Науки о Земле
The joint zone between subaquatic Reykjanes Ridge and Icelandic rift zones known as Reykjanes Rift Zone is a unique transform zone formed in conditions of interaction between the mantle plume and the mid-oceanic ridge.
A.A. Lukashov   +2 more
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