Northern Lights Destinations: 10 Places to See the Aurora Borealis
The northern lights shine brightest in a ring around the Arctic, the auroral zone centred near 67° north. Put yourself under that ring betwe...
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Iceland: Winter Landscapes & Nature Stories
Discover Iceland through winter landscapes, dramatic weather and photography from the natural world. Browse the country archive, then explore related collections on northern lights, ice formations and snowy scenes.
19 Winter Landscapes Around the World: Peyto Lake to Shirakawa-go
Snow turns familiar places into new ones. These nineteen winter landscapes run from a snowy street in Liverpool and frosted riverbanks in B...
Iceland Landscape Photography: Jakub Polomski’s Summer 2015 Journey
“Iceland is the place I fell in love with, but it’s a complicated relationship.” That is how landscape photographer Jakub Polomski summed u...
Iceland in Ten Photos: Skógafoss, Kirkjufell, Blue Lagoon and Turf Houses
Iceland packs an astonishing range of scenery into one island: waterfalls that drop off old sea cliffs, turf-roofed farm buildings, a mount...
Iceland Elopement by Van: Jeremy and Rachelle, Photographed by Troy Moth
When Jeremy and Rachelle sat down to plan their wedding, the venue, the menu and the guest list quickly felt overwhelming. Then Rachelle as...
Iceland Drone Film: Blue Racer Productions’ Aerial Tour of Falls and Ice
Skógafoss, Gullfoss and Dettifoss, the black sands of Reynisfjara, the glacier at Skaftafell and the volcanic caldera of Askja: Blue Racer ...
Iceland from Above: Jakub Polomski’s Drone Photos of 7 Landmarks
Lift a camera a hundred metres above Iceland's south coast and familiar landmarks turn into new shapes: a lighthouse becomes a dot on a ...
Iceland Drone Photos: Jakub Polomski's Aerial Views from Glaciers to Fjords
Polish landscape photographer Jakub Polomski spent two weeks in Iceland in July 2015, driving about 4,000 kilometres around the coast and i...
Into the Glacier: Langjökull's Man-Made Ice Tunnel in Iceland
Since 1 June 2015, visitors have been able to walk inside Langjökull, Iceland's second-largest glacier, through a man-made ice tunnel th...
Midnight Sun in the Arctic: Where and When the Sun Never Sets
It is a minute past midnight in Longyearbyen, and the painted wooden houses of Svalbard glow in full sunshine. North of the Arctic Circle, ...
Frosted Iceland: Lana Tannir’s Glacial Road Trip and Floating Ice Photos
Blue icebergs drifting on water tinted pink and violet by the long summer twilight: Lana Tannir’s “Frosted Iceland” series looks like midwi...
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Iceland in Winter: A Five-Day Road Trip from Reykjavík to Jökulsárlón
Stefan Verraedt and a friend gave themselves five winter days in Iceland. They explored Reykjavík, rented a car, drove the Golden Circle an...
18 Green Aurora Photos from Norway, Iceland, Canada, Alaska and the ISS
Green is the signature colour of the aurora, and these 18 photographs show it from two very different places: the snowy ground of Norway, I...
Akureyri Snowstorm: Julien Ratel’s Photos of North Iceland’s Capital
“We just arrived in the middle of a snowstorm and everything was white, snow everywhere,” wrote photographer Julien Ratel of his winter vis...
Winter Landscapes Around the World: 15 Snowy Places from Banff to Japan
Snow changes a place more than any other weather. A footbridge in New York, a thatched village in Japan, a turquoise lake in the Canadian R...
Vatnajökull: Iceland's Largest Glacier, Its Ice Caves and National Park
Vatnajökull is the largest glacier in Iceland and one of the great ice masses of Europe. The ice cap covers about 7,700 square kilometres, ...
Aurora Borealis over Greenland and Iceland: Joe Capra’s Two Lands
Filmmaker Joe Capra, who works as Scientifantastic, travelled to Greenland and Iceland to film the Arctic aurora at the peak of the Sun’s 1...
20 Little Houses in Winter Scenery: Tromsø, Lapland, Iceland and the Alps
A single red cabin under snow-covered peaks near Tromsø, a yellow house among frosted trees, a hunting lodge buried to its roof in the Dolo...
Two Lands: Joe Capra's 4K Time-Lapse of Greenland and Iceland
Northern lights, glaciers, the icebergs of Disko Bay and Iceland's Kirkjufell all feature in Two Lands – Greenland | Iceland is a 4K t...
Winter in Europe: Prague, Reykjavík, Abisko, Copenhagen and Venice
Winter changes the character of Europe’s great destinations. Snow settles on Prague’s Gothic towers, Reykjavík steams with geothermal pools...