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Iceland: land of natural beauties

Edit The Australian 25 Sep 2015
It is 9pm, and the sun still hangs high in the sky, casting a golden haze over everyone. It is a surreal scene ... Legends such as these come up often in Iceland ... It seems fitting, then, that our home for the night is in the fairytale-like Dyrholaey lighthouse. Dyrholaey, or “door-hole island”, is so named because of a huge arch of cooled lava that extends into the sea underneath the house ... Puffins fly around at dusk ... Checklist. ... ....

Letters: Defence spending guarantees George Osborne a stable economic course

Edit The Daily Telegraph 13 Mar 2015
Meeting Nato's 2 per cent minimum; unsung air heroes; volunteers hit hard by allergy regulations; and the uselessness of liquid soap. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne outside 11 Downing Street . 7.00AM GMT 13 Mar 2015. Comments ... George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, should support him for economic reasons ... Allen Sykes ... Seabirds silhouetted against waves breaking at Dyrholaey on the south coast of Iceland (Alamy) ... ....

Interstellar Iceland: Exploring deep space's double

Edit CNN 05 Nov 2014
November 5, 2014 -- Updated 0814 GMT (1614 HKT). Svinafellsjokull, a glacier in the Vatnajokull National Park, is one of the locations used in the filming of new movie "Interstellar." ... In reality, it's Iceland ... Some are big enough to climb through ... 1 ... The tale of flood and salvation used the dramatic basalt scenery of Reynisdrangar and Dyrholaey near the town of Vik -- on the road to Svinafellsjokull -- to stand in for antediluvian Earth....
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