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National Geographic : 1969 Aug
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Atop Iceland's uneasy crust, glaciers slide to the very brim of boiling springs, steam vents, and geysers. Some sheets of ice flow over active volcanic fields. A pretty skier (below) slaloms in August at Kerlingarfj6ll in the icy midlands, a realm virtually im penetrable in winter. Members of a skiing class (right) queue up between lessons to peer down the throat of a hot spring; one man warms his bare feet in hot mud. A rivulet of ice melt meanders at right. has forced them away from Iceland toward Spitsbergen. That's too far for us to go." The cod in Ingdlfur Arnarson's hold would be made into frozen fillets and fish sticks, many destined for the United States. Reykjavik proved full of surprises. One was the discovery that Icelandic girls wore skirts about as short as those at home in New York City (page 237). "I'll bet they change to ski pants in winter," I remarked during a courtesy call on Karl Rolvaag, United States Ambassador. 232 "Not necessarily," said Mr. Rolvaag, a for mer Governor of Minnesota and son of the late Ole Edvart Rilvaag, famous Norwegian American author. "Iceland's coastal areas, where most people live, have milder winters than my home state." A branch of the Gulf Stream keeps Reykja vik's average temperature in January, the coldest month, at 31° Fahrenheit. Winter days are depressingly dark and brief. July, the warmest month, averages 52°. Although it was chartered as a city in 1786,
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