Steinn Sigurðsson - Ísland

Ísland is the most per capita Web intensive nation in the world. This is not hard when there are only 260,000 odd people there, but on the other hand the island is about the size of the North American Great Lakes all put together. That's bigger than England.

For US Webbers, here is an excellent sites describing Ísland. The Icelandic Embassy in Washington also has a useful page. As does the newsmagazine Iceland Review.

There is also a fairly comprehensive listing of Icelanders Home Pages.

Miðheimar (Centrum), is a nice little web company, recently apparently taken over by Skíma.

OZ is one of the hottest WWW companies around, and have what must be the best creative team around.

Icelandic music is doing well, even if they're not all quite as famous as Björk, yet.

Hrafn also has a web page all should visit.
Other errant relatives are Kaddi and Halldóra.

On a more serious note, the Marine Research Institute is an excellent source of information on the North Atlantic fishies. The National Energy Authority is one of the best of its kind in the world (IMHO), and the University is a handy source of information as everywhere.

Oh, and our Government is now on-line, while our Parliament were the first to go on-line and look set to stay.

Here are some more random sites. I'll sort these out eventually.

Netútgáfan published the Icelandic Sagas and assorted folk tales, poetry, literature and icelandic documents.
Here is a page on ancient Icelandic history.
This looks to be quite useful general information for visitors or anyone generally curious about the place. I don't vouch for the accuracy of any of this though.
Here is a summary of the eruption in Vatnajökli 1996, including links to other pages.
Here is a site with lots of photos of Iceland and related stuff.
Here is a site showing antique maps of Iceland.
And, here for all you incipient capitalists is the Iceland Business site.
Here is a list of all institutional sites in Iceland.

Last updated 08/98

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