The first in a new series of light-hearted columns about life as a foreigner living in the Danish capital.
Tag Archive | "sea"
The Living in Copenhagen Diary: entry number one
Posted on 01 March 2012.
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Ocean turbine designer: “Iceland could up its energy production twentyfold”
Posted on 06 February 2012.
Valdimar Össurarson runs a company called Valorka, which has designed a marine electric turbine by the same name. The generator won first prize at the International Inventors’ Awards 2011. The company hopes its turbine will create a steady and reliable supply of electricity.
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Dramatic rescue in Icelandic waters
Posted on 06 November 2011.
The Icelandic Coastguard yesterday faced a stiff challenge when a large cargo ship lost its rudder off the country’s southeast coast and narrowly avoided washing up on the shore.
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Iceland’s Westfjords experiencing sudden fish boom
Posted on 28 October 2011.
The seas off the Westfjords region of Iceland have been teeming with an unusual number of fish in recent weeks and the town of Bolungarvik has not processed greater volumes of catch in over ten years.
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Iceland’s new ferry port “built in wrong place”
Posted on 11 October 2011.
The trouble-hit Landeyjahofn harbour, built to shorten trips between the Westman Islands and the Icelandic mainland, was built in the wrong place, according to the director of the Coastguard service.
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Skyrocketing mackerel numbers around Iceland blamed for puffin crash
Posted on 29 June 2011.
Increasing sea temperature and growing mackerel numbers around Iceland are having a direct impact on the collapse of sand eel populations upon which birds like puffins and Arctic terns depend.
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Bottlenose dolphin washes up in Iceland
Posted on 13 April 2011.
A bottlenose dolphin has washed ashore are Vikurfjara in Iceland. The bottlenose dolphin is a very rare visitor to Iceland.
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Icelandic seas under pressure from pollution
Posted on 10 February 2011.
Scientists are increasingly concerned by the effects of exhaust pollution on sealife. The sea around Iceland is reaching its maximum pollution tolerance level, says one oceanographer.
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