• @olafurp@lemmy.world
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    45 months ago

    Since I’m Icelandic I’m going to add a bit of context.

    Nobody knows if it’s going to continue or not, pretty much everything is speculation and experts have a very wide range of opinions.

    Since we had a couple of eruptions in the area recently there’s a good chance it will continue and it’ll have awakened.

  • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    -65 months ago

    30,000 residents of the Reykjanes peninsula – a tenth of Iceland’s population.

    So… there is basically no one in Iceland.

    • M137
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      215 months ago

      How is 300,000 people “no one”? That’s a lot of people, other countries having more doesn’t change that.

      • @Neil@lemmy.ml
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        65 months ago

        Iceland birthed Sigur Ros and Bjork. You’re historically the most important country on earth in my book.

    • @wahming@monyet.cc
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      95 months ago

      Funny that you’re downvoted so heavily, my Icelandic buddy just nodded along at this statement

    • @teichflamme@lemm.ee
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      55 months ago

      Yeah, I was baffled how empty it is when I visited. Their capital is like a district in most other capitals.

      Still beautiful though.

    • 🔍🦘🛎
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      55 months ago

      We were told as much when we visited. Apparently they get upwards of a million tourists a year, three times their actual population.