Kolbeinsey (or, Kolbeinn's Isle, Seagull Rock, Mevenklint, Mevenklip, and Meeuw Steen) is a small islet105 kilometres (65mi) off the northern coast of Iceland, 74 kilometres (46mi) north-northwest of the island of Grímsey. The island is the northernmost point of Iceland and lies north of the Arctic Circle. A basalt landform, devoid of vegetation, it is subject to rapid wave erosion and is expected to disappear in the near future, probably around the year 2020, based upon current rates of erosion.
The original size of the island is unknown. When it was first measured in 1616, its size was 700 metres (2,300ft) from north to south and 100 metres (330ft) east to west. By 1903, it had already diminished to half that size. In August 1985, the size was given as 39 metres (128ft) across. At the beginning of 2001, Kolbeinsey had reduced to an area of a mere 90 square metres (970sqft), which would correspond to the size of a circle of about 10.7 metres (35ft) in diameter. The island has a maximum elevation of 8 metres (26ft).
Kolbeinsey is the most northern part of Iceland, a tiny island that, according to Wikipedia, is due to disappear due to wave erosion "probably around the year 2020". Which raised an obvious question: is it still there?
THANKS TO:
This video was inspired by some tweets from author Sam Hughes. You can follow him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/qntm and read his work here: https://qntm.org/fiction
The pilots and team at Norlandair, who sorted out a charter at very short notice: https://www.norlandair.is/
The folks at the Hafdals Hotel, who were okay with me filming from their spectacular view!
FILMED SAFELY: see https://www.tomscott.com/safe/
PHOTO CREDITS:
Grimsey photos, in order, all licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
published: 17 Aug 2020
Kolbeinsey mæld hátt og lágt
Áhöfn varðskipsins Þórs fór nýverið í land í Kolbeinsey og mældi eyjuna en undanfarin ár hefur hún töluvert látið undan ágangi sjávar, hafíss og veðra. Frá vesturs til austurs reyndist eyjan vera 20 metrar og frá norðri til suðurs reyndist hún vera 14,5 metrar á lengd.
Kolbeinsey er nyrsti punktur Íslands og var miðað við hana þegar fiskveiðilögsagan var færð út í 200 mílur og mörkuð var miðlína milli Grænlands og Íslands. Varðskip og flugvélar Landhelgisgæslunnar hafa fylgst með þróun eyjunnar í gegnum tíðina.
Á Wikipediu segir að eyjan hafi fyrst verið mæld árið 1616 af Hvanndalabræðrum. Þá var hún sögð 100 metra breið og 700 metra löng. Árið 1903 var hún helmingi minni en það. Árið 2001 var hún aðeins 90 m² að stærð.
published: 27 Apr 2021
Kolbeinsey 1982
Um borð í Kolbeinsey 1982. Jakob Gunnar Hjaltalín tók.
published: 03 Aug 2013
Kolbeinsey
Inspired by an @elegiac_ai tweet
published: 08 Nov 2020
Kolbeinsey (Bergsveinn Birgisson)
Maður nokkur ákeður að heimsækja æskuvin sinn, sem hefur verið lagður inn á geðdeild sökum þunglyndis. Þeir ná vel saman, en hjúkrunarkona sem annast vininn tekur heimsóknunum illa og reynir að stía þeim í sundur. Maðurinn er settur í heimsóknarbann og því skipuleggja þeir strok af spítalanum og leggja á flótta. Strokinu er illa tekið, hjúkrunarkonan kemur æandi á eftir þeim og í kjölfarið hefst æsilegur eltingarleikur um landið þvert og endilangt. Flóttinn frá siðmenningunni verður sífellt flóknari og að lokum er stefnan tekin mót nyrstu eyju Íslands – Kolbeinsey.
„Einstaklega áhrifamikil, skemmtileg og djúp bók um lífið.“ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ BOK 365
#bók #gjöf #kolbeinsey
published: 22 Nov 2021
Kolbeinsey 1982
Um borð í Kolbeinsey, Jakob Hjaltalín tók
published: 05 Aug 2013
Kolbeinsey
Kolbeinsey is a small islet 105 kilometres off the northern coast of Iceland, 74 kilometres north-northwest of the island of Grímsey. The island is the northernmost point of Iceland and lies north of the Arctic Circle. It is named after Kolbeinn Sigmundsson from Kolbeinsdalur in Skagafjörður who is said to have broken his ship there and died with his men, according to Svarfdæla saga. A basalt landform, devoid of vegetation, it is subject to rapid wave erosion and is expected to disappear in the near future. Erosion rate data from 1994 suggested that this would happen around 2020. However, as of August 2020, two small parts of the island still remain visible, at least during low tide.
published: 18 Aug 2020
kolbeinsey
um borð í kolbeinsey. Jakob Hjaltalín myndatökumaður
Kolbeinsey is the most northern part of Iceland, a tiny island that, according to Wikipedia, is due to disappear due to wave erosion "probably around the year 2...
Kolbeinsey is the most northern part of Iceland, a tiny island that, according to Wikipedia, is due to disappear due to wave erosion "probably around the year 2020". Which raised an obvious question: is it still there?
THANKS TO:
This video was inspired by some tweets from author Sam Hughes. You can follow him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/qntm and read his work here: https://qntm.org/fiction
The pilots and team at Norlandair, who sorted out a charter at very short notice: https://www.norlandair.is/
The folks at the Hafdals Hotel, who were okay with me filming from their spectacular view!
FILMED SAFELY: see https://www.tomscott.com/safe/
PHOTO CREDITS:
Grimsey photos, in order, all licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Michael Pollak, "basaltsäulen": https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpollak/30409397618/
John Lester, "IMG_0546": https://www.flickr.com/photos/pathfinderlinden/190514442/
Brian Gratwicke, "Puffin on Grimsey": https://www.flickr.com/photos/briangratwicke/14809239484/
Michael Pollak, "marker": https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpollak/29340290367/
All photos of Kolbeinsey in 1989 and 2001 are copyright Guðmundur St. Valdimarsson, and used with permission and thanks.
Photos from 2013 are copyright of Landhelgisgæsla Íslands (the Icelandic Coast Guard), and used with permission and thanks.
And the "so I chartered a plane" gag is very heavily inspired by Matt Parker's video about stroboscopic helicopter blades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SgG99QKLFE
SOURCES and FURTHER READING:
Sæmundsson and Hjartarson (1989), "Geology and Erosion of Kolbeinsey North of Iceland", http://wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/20061115000423/http://www.isor.is/~ah/kolbeinsey/kolb_ensk.html
Jacobsen, T., & Stone, I. (2006). Kolbeinsey: Iceland's Arctic island. Polar Record, 42(2), 167-169. doi: 10.1017/s0032247406215298
From Landhelgisgæsla Íslands (the Icelandic Coast Guard):
https://www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmidlar/frettasafn/frettayfirlit/nr/212
https://www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmidlar/frettasafn/frettayfirlit/nr/1652
https://www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmidlar/frettasafn/frettayfirlit/nr/2564
https://www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmidlar/frettasafn/frettayfirlit/nr/2611
The Cod Wars, from the UK National Archives: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/cod-wars.htm
And of course, the Wikipedia article for Kolbeinsey, which will presumably be updated shortly after this video goes live. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolbeinsey
I'm at https://tomscott.com
on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tomscott
on Facebook at https://facebook.com/tomscott
and on Instagram as tomscottgo
Kolbeinsey is the most northern part of Iceland, a tiny island that, according to Wikipedia, is due to disappear due to wave erosion "probably around the year 2020". Which raised an obvious question: is it still there?
THANKS TO:
This video was inspired by some tweets from author Sam Hughes. You can follow him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/qntm and read his work here: https://qntm.org/fiction
The pilots and team at Norlandair, who sorted out a charter at very short notice: https://www.norlandair.is/
The folks at the Hafdals Hotel, who were okay with me filming from their spectacular view!
FILMED SAFELY: see https://www.tomscott.com/safe/
PHOTO CREDITS:
Grimsey photos, in order, all licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Michael Pollak, "basaltsäulen": https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpollak/30409397618/
John Lester, "IMG_0546": https://www.flickr.com/photos/pathfinderlinden/190514442/
Brian Gratwicke, "Puffin on Grimsey": https://www.flickr.com/photos/briangratwicke/14809239484/
Michael Pollak, "marker": https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpollak/29340290367/
All photos of Kolbeinsey in 1989 and 2001 are copyright Guðmundur St. Valdimarsson, and used with permission and thanks.
Photos from 2013 are copyright of Landhelgisgæsla Íslands (the Icelandic Coast Guard), and used with permission and thanks.
And the "so I chartered a plane" gag is very heavily inspired by Matt Parker's video about stroboscopic helicopter blades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SgG99QKLFE
SOURCES and FURTHER READING:
Sæmundsson and Hjartarson (1989), "Geology and Erosion of Kolbeinsey North of Iceland", http://wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/20061115000423/http://www.isor.is/~ah/kolbeinsey/kolb_ensk.html
Jacobsen, T., & Stone, I. (2006). Kolbeinsey: Iceland's Arctic island. Polar Record, 42(2), 167-169. doi: 10.1017/s0032247406215298
From Landhelgisgæsla Íslands (the Icelandic Coast Guard):
https://www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmidlar/frettasafn/frettayfirlit/nr/212
https://www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmidlar/frettasafn/frettayfirlit/nr/1652
https://www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmidlar/frettasafn/frettayfirlit/nr/2564
https://www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmidlar/frettasafn/frettayfirlit/nr/2611
The Cod Wars, from the UK National Archives: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/cod-wars.htm
And of course, the Wikipedia article for Kolbeinsey, which will presumably be updated shortly after this video goes live. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolbeinsey
I'm at https://tomscott.com
on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tomscott
on Facebook at https://facebook.com/tomscott
and on Instagram as tomscottgo
Áhöfn varðskipsins Þórs fór nýverið í land í Kolbeinsey og mældi eyjuna en undanfarin ár hefur hún töluvert látið undan ágangi sjávar, hafíss og veðra. Frá vest...
Áhöfn varðskipsins Þórs fór nýverið í land í Kolbeinsey og mældi eyjuna en undanfarin ár hefur hún töluvert látið undan ágangi sjávar, hafíss og veðra. Frá vesturs til austurs reyndist eyjan vera 20 metrar og frá norðri til suðurs reyndist hún vera 14,5 metrar á lengd.
Kolbeinsey er nyrsti punktur Íslands og var miðað við hana þegar fiskveiðilögsagan var færð út í 200 mílur og mörkuð var miðlína milli Grænlands og Íslands. Varðskip og flugvélar Landhelgisgæslunnar hafa fylgst með þróun eyjunnar í gegnum tíðina.
Á Wikipediu segir að eyjan hafi fyrst verið mæld árið 1616 af Hvanndalabræðrum. Þá var hún sögð 100 metra breið og 700 metra löng. Árið 1903 var hún helmingi minni en það. Árið 2001 var hún aðeins 90 m² að stærð.
Áhöfn varðskipsins Þórs fór nýverið í land í Kolbeinsey og mældi eyjuna en undanfarin ár hefur hún töluvert látið undan ágangi sjávar, hafíss og veðra. Frá vesturs til austurs reyndist eyjan vera 20 metrar og frá norðri til suðurs reyndist hún vera 14,5 metrar á lengd.
Kolbeinsey er nyrsti punktur Íslands og var miðað við hana þegar fiskveiðilögsagan var færð út í 200 mílur og mörkuð var miðlína milli Grænlands og Íslands. Varðskip og flugvélar Landhelgisgæslunnar hafa fylgst með þróun eyjunnar í gegnum tíðina.
Á Wikipediu segir að eyjan hafi fyrst verið mæld árið 1616 af Hvanndalabræðrum. Þá var hún sögð 100 metra breið og 700 metra löng. Árið 1903 var hún helmingi minni en það. Árið 2001 var hún aðeins 90 m² að stærð.
Maður nokkur ákeður að heimsækja æskuvin sinn, sem hefur verið lagður inn á geðdeild sökum þunglyndis. Þeir ná vel saman, en hjúkrunarkona sem annast vininn tek...
Maður nokkur ákeður að heimsækja æskuvin sinn, sem hefur verið lagður inn á geðdeild sökum þunglyndis. Þeir ná vel saman, en hjúkrunarkona sem annast vininn tekur heimsóknunum illa og reynir að stía þeim í sundur. Maðurinn er settur í heimsóknarbann og því skipuleggja þeir strok af spítalanum og leggja á flótta. Strokinu er illa tekið, hjúkrunarkonan kemur æandi á eftir þeim og í kjölfarið hefst æsilegur eltingarleikur um landið þvert og endilangt. Flóttinn frá siðmenningunni verður sífellt flóknari og að lokum er stefnan tekin mót nyrstu eyju Íslands – Kolbeinsey.
„Einstaklega áhrifamikil, skemmtileg og djúp bók um lífið.“ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ BOK 365
#bók #gjöf #kolbeinsey
Maður nokkur ákeður að heimsækja æskuvin sinn, sem hefur verið lagður inn á geðdeild sökum þunglyndis. Þeir ná vel saman, en hjúkrunarkona sem annast vininn tekur heimsóknunum illa og reynir að stía þeim í sundur. Maðurinn er settur í heimsóknarbann og því skipuleggja þeir strok af spítalanum og leggja á flótta. Strokinu er illa tekið, hjúkrunarkonan kemur æandi á eftir þeim og í kjölfarið hefst æsilegur eltingarleikur um landið þvert og endilangt. Flóttinn frá siðmenningunni verður sífellt flóknari og að lokum er stefnan tekin mót nyrstu eyju Íslands – Kolbeinsey.
„Einstaklega áhrifamikil, skemmtileg og djúp bók um lífið.“ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ BOK 365
#bók #gjöf #kolbeinsey
Kolbeinsey is a small islet 105 kilometres off the northern coast of Iceland, 74 kilometres north-northwest of the island of Grímsey. The island is the north...
Kolbeinsey is a small islet 105 kilometres off the northern coast of Iceland, 74 kilometres north-northwest of the island of Grímsey. The island is the northernmost point of Iceland and lies north of the Arctic Circle. It is named after Kolbeinn Sigmundsson from Kolbeinsdalur in Skagafjörður who is said to have broken his ship there and died with his men, according to Svarfdæla saga. A basalt landform, devoid of vegetation, it is subject to rapid wave erosion and is expected to disappear in the near future. Erosion rate data from 1994 suggested that this would happen around 2020. However, as of August 2020, two small parts of the island still remain visible, at least during low tide.
Kolbeinsey is a small islet 105 kilometres off the northern coast of Iceland, 74 kilometres north-northwest of the island of Grímsey. The island is the northernmost point of Iceland and lies north of the Arctic Circle. It is named after Kolbeinn Sigmundsson from Kolbeinsdalur in Skagafjörður who is said to have broken his ship there and died with his men, according to Svarfdæla saga. A basalt landform, devoid of vegetation, it is subject to rapid wave erosion and is expected to disappear in the near future. Erosion rate data from 1994 suggested that this would happen around 2020. However, as of August 2020, two small parts of the island still remain visible, at least during low tide.
Kolbeinsey is the most northern part of Iceland, a tiny island that, according to Wikipedia, is due to disappear due to wave erosion "probably around the year 2020". Which raised an obvious question: is it still there?
THANKS TO:
This video was inspired by some tweets from author Sam Hughes. You can follow him on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/qntm and read his work here: https://qntm.org/fiction
The pilots and team at Norlandair, who sorted out a charter at very short notice: https://www.norlandair.is/
The folks at the Hafdals Hotel, who were okay with me filming from their spectacular view!
FILMED SAFELY: see https://www.tomscott.com/safe/
PHOTO CREDITS:
Grimsey photos, in order, all licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Michael Pollak, "basaltsäulen": https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpollak/30409397618/
John Lester, "IMG_0546": https://www.flickr.com/photos/pathfinderlinden/190514442/
Brian Gratwicke, "Puffin on Grimsey": https://www.flickr.com/photos/briangratwicke/14809239484/
Michael Pollak, "marker": https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpollak/29340290367/
All photos of Kolbeinsey in 1989 and 2001 are copyright Guðmundur St. Valdimarsson, and used with permission and thanks.
Photos from 2013 are copyright of Landhelgisgæsla Íslands (the Icelandic Coast Guard), and used with permission and thanks.
And the "so I chartered a plane" gag is very heavily inspired by Matt Parker's video about stroboscopic helicopter blades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SgG99QKLFE
SOURCES and FURTHER READING:
Sæmundsson and Hjartarson (1989), "Geology and Erosion of Kolbeinsey North of Iceland", http://wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/20061115000423/http://www.isor.is/~ah/kolbeinsey/kolb_ensk.html
Jacobsen, T., & Stone, I. (2006). Kolbeinsey: Iceland's Arctic island. Polar Record, 42(2), 167-169. doi: 10.1017/s0032247406215298
From Landhelgisgæsla Íslands (the Icelandic Coast Guard):
https://www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmidlar/frettasafn/frettayfirlit/nr/212
https://www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmidlar/frettasafn/frettayfirlit/nr/1652
https://www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmidlar/frettasafn/frettayfirlit/nr/2564
https://www.lhg.is/frettir-og-fjolmidlar/frettasafn/frettayfirlit/nr/2611
The Cod Wars, from the UK National Archives: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/cod-wars.htm
And of course, the Wikipedia article for Kolbeinsey, which will presumably be updated shortly after this video goes live. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolbeinsey
I'm at https://tomscott.com
on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tomscott
on Facebook at https://facebook.com/tomscott
and on Instagram as tomscottgo
Áhöfn varðskipsins Þórs fór nýverið í land í Kolbeinsey og mældi eyjuna en undanfarin ár hefur hún töluvert látið undan ágangi sjávar, hafíss og veðra. Frá vesturs til austurs reyndist eyjan vera 20 metrar og frá norðri til suðurs reyndist hún vera 14,5 metrar á lengd.
Kolbeinsey er nyrsti punktur Íslands og var miðað við hana þegar fiskveiðilögsagan var færð út í 200 mílur og mörkuð var miðlína milli Grænlands og Íslands. Varðskip og flugvélar Landhelgisgæslunnar hafa fylgst með þróun eyjunnar í gegnum tíðina.
Á Wikipediu segir að eyjan hafi fyrst verið mæld árið 1616 af Hvanndalabræðrum. Þá var hún sögð 100 metra breið og 700 metra löng. Árið 1903 var hún helmingi minni en það. Árið 2001 var hún aðeins 90 m² að stærð.
Maður nokkur ákeður að heimsækja æskuvin sinn, sem hefur verið lagður inn á geðdeild sökum þunglyndis. Þeir ná vel saman, en hjúkrunarkona sem annast vininn tekur heimsóknunum illa og reynir að stía þeim í sundur. Maðurinn er settur í heimsóknarbann og því skipuleggja þeir strok af spítalanum og leggja á flótta. Strokinu er illa tekið, hjúkrunarkonan kemur æandi á eftir þeim og í kjölfarið hefst æsilegur eltingarleikur um landið þvert og endilangt. Flóttinn frá siðmenningunni verður sífellt flóknari og að lokum er stefnan tekin mót nyrstu eyju Íslands – Kolbeinsey.
„Einstaklega áhrifamikil, skemmtileg og djúp bók um lífið.“ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ BOK 365
#bók #gjöf #kolbeinsey
Kolbeinsey is a small islet 105 kilometres off the northern coast of Iceland, 74 kilometres north-northwest of the island of Grímsey. The island is the northernmost point of Iceland and lies north of the Arctic Circle. It is named after Kolbeinn Sigmundsson from Kolbeinsdalur in Skagafjörður who is said to have broken his ship there and died with his men, according to Svarfdæla saga. A basalt landform, devoid of vegetation, it is subject to rapid wave erosion and is expected to disappear in the near future. Erosion rate data from 1994 suggested that this would happen around 2020. However, as of August 2020, two small parts of the island still remain visible, at least during low tide.
Kolbeinsey (or, Kolbeinn's Isle, Seagull Rock, Mevenklint, Mevenklip, and Meeuw Steen) is a small islet105 kilometres (65mi) off the northern coast of Iceland, 74 kilometres (46mi) north-northwest of the island of Grímsey. The island is the northernmost point of Iceland and lies north of the Arctic Circle. A basalt landform, devoid of vegetation, it is subject to rapid wave erosion and is expected to disappear in the near future, probably around the year 2020, based upon current rates of erosion.
The original size of the island is unknown. When it was first measured in 1616, its size was 700 metres (2,300ft) from north to south and 100 metres (330ft) east to west. By 1903, it had already diminished to half that size. In August 1985, the size was given as 39 metres (128ft) across. At the beginning of 2001, Kolbeinsey had reduced to an area of a mere 90 square metres (970sqft), which would correspond to the size of a circle of about 10.7 metres (35ft) in diameter. The island has a maximum elevation of 8 metres (26ft).
Sniverling little bunny bouncing up and down, Scummy little creatures, Run them out of town, In the tiny tunnels scuffling under ground, Toxic little bunny can always be found, Danger evil rodent, Multiplying every day, Bunny taking over, Get on your knees and pray, Filthy fluffy creatures, Teeth as sharp as knives, The longeared ones are coming, Run run run for your lives, Killa bunny is a coming, Killa bunny on his way, Killa bunny is a coming,