Iceland 1930

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Identifikator:: 1830571079

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221162

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Iceland 1930

Edition:: 2. ed.

Place of publication:: Reykjavík

Publisher:: Ríkisprentsmiđjan Gutenberg

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 193 S.; Tab., Kt., Taf.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Iceland for tourists

Collection:: Economics Books

time there, and then catch the boat at Borgarnes going back to Reykjavik. But instead of going back to Borgarnes, the tourist can also stay over night at Reykjaholt, hire some ponies there, and on the following day visit Barnafoss, either one of the two caves, Vid- gelmir or Surtshellir, passing the night at Ka/manstunga or Hisa- fell, and on the third day ride 65 km. to Thingvellir. Quite recently, the way between Thingvellir and Hisafell has been improved to such an extent as to make it practicable for motor cars in the middle of summer, and from Hisafell, one can proceed motoring all the way to Repkjaholf. If it is intended to visit the caves and the waterfalls, Hiisafell will be found the best suited place for hiring ponies. ANGLING SALMON RIVERS Of the many hundreds of rivers found in Iceland, there are not over forty where salmon are caught, owing to the fact that so many of the Icelandic rivers are fed by glacier water, almost entirely. In some rivers, the salmon have been utterly exterminated by netting. However, these last named are very few. For the last five years, the annual catch of salmon in Iceland, has been about 17000 fish, on an average. The river Ellidai, lying about 6 kilometres away from Reykjavik, has for many years been considered the very best salmon river in Ice- land, but since 1921, when the electric power station was erected there, it can scarcely hold its own against either the Lax4, draining Mpvatn and falling into Skjélfandafléi in the north part of Iceland, or the two best rivers in the district of Borgarfiérdur, viz. the Thveri and the Nordurd, both of which are among the half a dozen tributaries to the Western Hvitid. It is however safe to say that 1000 salmon a year is not a bad average for a comparatively small river, like the Ellidai. During the earlier part of September there is generally an abundance of sea trout in the estuary of this river. Two other rivers, both rather small and of little account may be mentioned here, just for the fact that they are so near the capital; these are the Korpélfsstadai and Leirvogsd; their distances from Reykjavik being respectively 10 and 18 kilometres. Lax4 in Kjés, falling into Hvalfiordur, 54 kilometres distant from the capital, is in some seasons fairly well stocked with salmon.

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