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Story & Photography by Wibke Carter
ing” goes my phone in the see and do during the day as well.
middle of the night. I jump Akureyri, Iceland’s second biggest city, is
out of bed, sprint to the a charming seaside town spread along‐
“P window and scan the hori‐ side the country’s largest fjord. Many
zon. As much as I try and will myself to people come here by cruise ship or via
see something, there is … nothing. At 2 the famous Ring Road, or Route 1, that
am, someone had triggered a false alarm loops the island in a full circle, skirting
on a tracker app for the northern lights around Iceland's central, uninhabited
over Akureyri. It is my second night in highlands. A favorite place for whale
Iceland and the clouds keep relentlessly watching, Humpback Whales, Minke
covering the winter skies. Whales, Harbour Porpoise, and White
Seeing the aurora borealis has been a Beak ed Dolphins can be seen in the fjord
long-held dream, but there is plenty to or sometimes even in front of Akureyri.
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