Caption Above: Ortelius's 1658 map of Iceland showing various mythological sea creatures. Below, a detail of a sea creature labelled H, ‘the greatest of whales’ which could not chase fish but ...

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“Iceland offers connections to the past found almost nowhere else,” says National Geographic fellow Jonathan Tourtellot, who has been to the country six times. “Just tell your children that ...

Based on the weather alone, I was thrilled to go to Iceland with National Geographic Expeditions and Lindblad Expeditions. As ...