View on Iceland: Pirates, Off-Roading and Winter Wonderland
Once you finished browsing Iceland Monitor’s wide selection of news , events and features , you might like to have a look at some other Iceland-related material from around the world that we shall be collecting for you weekly.
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Iceland
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s Pirate Party offers a glimpse at a more radical future
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Los Angeles Times
Steven Zeitchik gives a bird’s-eye overview of Iceland ’ s Pirate Party, “one of the West’s most unusual political groups” – their place in the world politics, their aspirations for Iceland and the political challenges ahead.
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Formula Offroad: up close with Iceland's most extreme motorsport
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Autocar
As the 2016 Icelandic Formula Offroad Championship draws to its annual close, Richard Webber takes at look at (legal) offroading in Iceland and some of the “jaw-dropping” skills possible when you marry the right vehicles with Icelandic terrain.
Read Formula Offroad: up close with Iceland's most extreme motorsport, by Richard Webber
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Photo Essay: Iceland in the Winter
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The 405
Winter in Iceland, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, may not sound like the ideal travel experience, but who knows? This impressive collection of images and words by Thom Corbishley might just make you think again...
Read Photo Essay: Iceland in the Winter, by Thom Corbishley
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