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Car Hire Iceland: The Iceland Tourist Bureau will be your great and good and even essential friend in all your touring plans. I might mention here that plane fares are definitely low in Iceland while car hire iceland hire, even without a chauffeur, is high. car hire iceland rental is usually 250 kronur a day (about $15.30 at the official exchange), plus gasoline and oil. The figure of 250 kronur, as it happens, is exactly that of a one-way flight between Reykjavik and Akureyri, a distance of 281 miles! The bus fare for that same trip, an extremely punishing one, comes to two-thirds of the plane fare.In Reykjavik, Iceland's little capital, there is a striking statue to "Leifr Eiricsson, Son of Iceland, Discoverer of Vin-land," presented to the city by the United States in 1930 on the thousandth anniversary of the founding of Iceland's primitive parliament, the Althing. Two reasons for visiting this ancient land, now a young republic, are evident in that statue and its inscription.
The greatest thickness of ice known was recorded by radio ech soundings over Antarctica 440 km/270 mi from the Wilkes Land coast. The ice was 4.28 km/2 mi 704 vd thick. Iceland boasts the i world's oJdest democ " niric parliament, the Althing having been in continuous existence since 930. Iceland exports fish (frozen, salted or fresh), lobsters, shrimps and scallops, mainly to the UK, Germany, US, France, Japan and Denmark. The population of Iceland is 258,000 (est. 1991), comprising 96.5% Icelanders. Danes, Swedes, Americans and Germans make up the rest. |
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