A Dix Hills library is highlighting Long Island’s history by using maps. “The Iconic Fish: Early Maps of Long Island” opened earlier this month at the Half Hollow Hills Community Library, in ...

The Westman Islands, locally known as Vestmannaeyjar, are a group of islands off the southern coast of Iceland. Like their better known neighboring island, ...

Rhodope Mountains, Westman Islands, Iberian Peninsula6. Around 3000 B.C., the Sumerians built some of the world’s first known cities in southern Mesopotamia. This region is part of which present ...

Throwing thousands of baby puffins off a cliff is a yearly tradition for the people of Iceland's Westman Islands. It's part of what's known as "puffling season" and is a crucial life-saving endeavor.

Every year, puffin chicks get disorientated by light pollution and crash into nearby Icelandic islands on their way out to sea.

Iceland is a land of volcanoes. Nowhere is this more evident than on the Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands), an archipelago off the southern coast of Iceland. Here, centuries of volcanic eruptions ...

Throwing thousands of baby puffins off a cliff is a yearly tradition for the people of Iceland's Westman Islands. It's part of what's known as "puffling season" and is a crucial life-saving endeavor.

Off the southwest coast of Iceland lie the Westman Islands: an Atlantic archipelago where life must submit to the forces of nature. Gisli Matt runs a gourmet restaurant here — which poses a real ...

On the Icelandic island of Heimaey, the largest of the rocky Icelandic Westman Islands, the opportunity to play one of the country's most enchanting courses draws locals and tourists alike. Around ...

The story of salvage operations in the wake of the 1973 Westman Island eruption. The 5.000 inhabitants were evacuated in a matter of hours as lava and ash destroyed a large part of the town. The ...