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The Northern Wheatear in „COVID silence“

Posted in Náttúra, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 11.2.2021| 2 Comments »

In recent years I have spent several nights in Skeiðarársandur to record the changes in the ecosystem.Skeiðarársandur is a huge broad sandy wasteland along Iceland’s south-eastern coast, between the Vatnajökull icecap and the sea. It is a wonderful place to record deep natural silence in a huge open flat landscape.For hundreds of years Skeiðarársandur has been […]

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Dögun við Eyrar

Posted in Náttúra, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 20.8.2020| Leave a Comment »

Thanks to COVID, I got a unique opportunity this summer to record in places I have so far not been able to record because of traffic, mainly due to tourists. One such site was Skeiðarársandur, a broad sandy wasteland along Iceland’s south-eastern coast, between the Vatnajökull icecap and the sea. This area has been a […]

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Residents of the silence

Posted in Náttúra, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 7.6.2017| Leave a Comment »

One year ago I was recording in Skaftafell national park and neighborhood in southeast of Iceland. One of my favorite recording place in this area is not exactly in the park, but on Skeiðarársandur, a huge broad sandy wasteland along Iceland’s south-eastern coast, between the Vatnajökull icecap and the sea. One of the reason I […]

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Stories from Skeiðarársandur. Part 1

Posted in Náttúra, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 10.6.2016| Leave a Comment »

An outwash plain, also called a sandur is a plain formed of glacial sediments deposited by meltwater outwash at the terminus of a glacier. As it flows, the glacier grinds the underlying rock surface and carries the debris along. The meltwater at the snout of the glacier deposits its load of sediment over the outwash […]

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