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ﾃ行lendingur
''ﾃ行lendingur'' (, "Icelander") is a replica of the Gokstad viking ship and was sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 2000. It is on display at the Viking World museum in Njarﾃｰvﾃｭk, Reykjanesbﾃｦr, Iceland. The ship was built in 1996 by Gunnar Marel Eggertsson, a shipwright from the Westman Islands who skippered the Norwegian Gokstad ship copy ''Gaia'' on her voyage to Washington, D.C. in 1991.Voyage of the ''Islendingur'' Press Release, Government of , 27 April 2000. ''ﾃ行lendingur'' measures 22.5 metres in length, 5.3 metres in breadth, has a draught of 1.7 metres and measuress 80 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''ﾃ行lendingur'' (, "Icelander") is a replica of the Gokstad viking ship and was sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 2000. It is on display at the Viking World museum in Njarﾃｰvﾃｭk, Reykjanesbﾃｦr, Iceland. The ship was built in 1996 by Gunnar Marel Eggertsson, a shipwright from the Westman Islands who skippered the Norwegian Gokstad ship copy ''Gaia'' on her voyage to Washington, D.C. in 1991.Voyage of the ''Islendingur'' Press Release, Government of , 27 April 2000. ''ﾃ行lendingur'' measures 22.5 metres in length, 5.3 metres in breadth, has a draught of 1.7 metres and measuress 80 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking World Museum
Viking World ( is, Vﾃｭkingaheimar ) is a museum in Njarﾃｰvﾃｭk, Reykjanesbﾃｦr, Iceland. The museum opened on 8 May 2009,Vﾃｭkingaheimar - Viking World to be opened EFLA-Engineers.com, April 2009.Vﾃｭkingaheimar opna ﾃ｡ morgun '''' 7 May 2009 followed by a formal opening on , 17 June. The director was Elisabeth Ward; the bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaia Ship
The Gaia ship is a replica of the 9th century Viking ship '' Gokstad ship''. It was built in 1990 and departed Bergen for North America on 17 May 1991. It was named Hav-Cella prior to departing but was renamed ''Gaia'' by Vigdﾃｭs Finnbogadﾃｳttir, President of Iceland, during a stopover in Iceland. Gaia is the name for the goddess of the Earth in Greek mythology. The Gaia Ship reached Newfoundland on 2 August and Washington DC on Leif Erikson Day, 9 October 1991. It further sailed to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit via the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and North America. With the completion of Museum窶冱 Wharf by Sandefjord Museum in the summer of 1995, ''Gaia'' and the newly restored ''Southern Actor'' were permanently placed on the wharf where they remain accessible to the public. The ship can be rented for private tours in the fjord. History In the late 1980s, Knut Utstein Kloster was cosponsoring a millennial celebration for Leif Eriksson窶冱 voyage to North America, "V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weblog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) emerged, featuring the writing of multiple authors and sometimes professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media. ''Blog'' can also be used as a verb, meaning ''to maintain or add content to a blog''. The emergence and growth of blogs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif Eriksson
Leif Erikson, Leiv Eiriksson, or Leif Ericson, ; Modern Icelandic: ; Norwegian: ''Leiv Eiriksson'' also known as Leif the Lucky (), was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to have set foot on continental North America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. According to the sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which is usually interpreted as being coastal North America. There is ongoing speculation that the settlement made by Leif and his crew corresponds to the remains of a Norse settlement found in Newfoundland, Canada, called L'Anse aux Meadows, which was occupied 1,000 years ago (carbon dating estimates 990窶1050 CE). Leif was the son of Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland, and Thjodhild (ﾃ柬ﾃｳﾃｰhildur) of Iceland. His place of birth is not known, but he is assumed to have been born in Iceland, which had recently been colonized by Norsemen mainly from N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinland
Vinland, Vineland, or Winland ( non, Vﾃｭnland 癩癪≪埓癪壯寉癩ｾ癪) was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Erikson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. The name appears in the Vinland Sagas, and describes Newfoundland and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence as far as northeastern New Brunswick. Much of the geographical content of the sagas corresponds to present-day knowledge of transatlantic travel and North America. In 1960, archaeological evidence of the only known Norse site in North America, L'Anse aux Meadows, was found on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland. Before the discovery of archaeological evidence, Vinland was known only from the sagas and medieval historiography. The 1960 discovery further proved the pre-Columbian Norse exploration of mainland North America. L'Anse aux Meadows has been hypothesized to be the camp '' Straumfjﾃｶrﾃｰ'' mentioned in the ''Saga of Eri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reykjavﾃｭk
Reykjavﾃｭk ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflﾃｳi bay. Its latitude is 64ﾂｰ08' N, making it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. With a population of around 131,136 (and 233,034 in the Capital Region), it is the centre of Iceland's cultural, economic, and governmental activity, and is a popular tourist destination. Reykjavﾃｭk is believed to be the location of the first permanent settlement in Iceland, which, according to Landnﾃ｡mabﾃｳk, was established by Ingﾃｳlfr Arnarson in 874 CE. Until the 18th century, there was no urban development in the city location. The city was officially founded in 1786 as a trading town and grew steadily over the following decades, as it transformed into a regional and later national centre of commerce, population, and governmental activities. It is among the cleanest, greenest, and safest cities in the world. History According to lege ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic National Day
Icelandic National Day ( is, ﾃ柬ﾃｳﾃｰhﾃ｡tﾃｭﾃｰardagurinn, the day of the nation's celebration) is an annual holiday in Iceland which commemorates the foundation of The Republic of Iceland on 17 June 1944. This date also marks the end of Iceland's centuries old ties with Denmark. The date was chosen to coincide with the birthday of Jﾃｳn Sigurﾃｰsson, a major figure of Icelandic culture and the leader of the 19th century Icelandic independence movement. ''Icelandic Review'' 6/17/2013 History The formation of the republic was based on a clause in the 1918[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Anse Aux Meadows
L'Anse aux Meadows ( lit. Meadows Cove) is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador near St. Anthony. With carbon dating estimates between 990窶1050 CE, tree-ring analysis dating to the year 1021 and a mean carbon date of 1014 overall, L'Anse aux Meadows is the only undisputed site of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact of Europeans with the Americas outside of Greenland. It is notable as evidence of the Norse presence in North America and for its possible connection with Leif Erikson as mentioned in the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red, which were written down in the 13th century. Archaeological evidence found at the site indicates that L窶僊nse aux Meadows may have served as a base camp for Norse exploration of North America, including regions to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bﾃｺﾃｰardalur
Bﾃｺﾃｰardalur () is a village situated on the Hvammsfjﾃｶrﾃｰur in the north-west of Iceland. The village also lies at the north-eastern end of the Snﾃｦfellsnes peninsula and is part of the municipality of Dalabyggﾃｰ. Bﾃｺﾃｰardalur had about 270 inhabitants in 2014 and is a service center for the area, including the regional tourist information centre.Frank Jacobs"The Map as Address: Cryptic Letter Reaches Icelandic Destination" ''The Big Think'', 4 September 2016.Andrew Evans, ''Iceland'', 2nd ed. Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England: Bradt Travel Guides, 2011, p. 276 In the traditional system of counties of Iceland that existed until the late 1980s, it was part of Dalasﾃｽsla, a name that is still used for the region. Overview Bﾃｺﾃｰardalur contains a supermarket and a petrol station, hair salons, a pub/restaurant, a coffee shop, a health-care centre, an off-licence, a garage and a craft shop; the information centre is in the same building as a cafe and a museum on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knot (unit)
The knot () is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, exactly (approximately or ). The ISO standard symbol for the knot is kn. The same symbol is preferred by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), while kt is also common, especially in aviation, where it is the form recommended by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The knot is a non- SI unit. The knot is used in meteorology, and in maritime and air navigation. A vessel travelling at 1 knot along a meridian travels approximately one minute of geographic latitude in one hour. Definitions ;1 international knot = :1 nautical mile per hour (by definition), : (exactly), : (approximately), : (approximately), : (approximately) : (approximately). The length of the internationally agreed nautical mile is . The US adopted the international definition in 1954, having previously used the US nautical mile (). The UK adopted the international nautical mile definition in 1970, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
