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‏הצגת רשומות עם תוויות lake. הצג את כל הרשומות

24 אוגוסט, 2012

Commission to Verify Iceland Lake Monster

19.08.2012 | 17:00
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Commission to Verify Iceland Lake Monster Video
The district council of Fljótsdalshérað municipality in East Iceland has appointed a 13-person investigative commission to evaluate whether the infamous lake monster Lagarfljótsormurinn is the phenomenon filmed by Hjörtur Kjerúlf, farmer at Hrafnkelsstaðir, last winter.

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Lagarfljót. Photo by ESA.

Hjörtur’s video of an object or creature that appeared to wriggle like a worm in the river Jökulsá í Fljótsdal which runs into the lake Lagarfljót, the monster’s alleged habitat, garnered significant attention, resulting in foreign television crews coming to Iceland to try and catch the monster on camera, ruv.is reports.
link to the video http://www.ruv.is/frett/er-thetta-lagarfljotsormurinn

This summer, Hjörtur has made claim to ISK 500,000 (USD 4,200, EUR 3,400), a prize in a competition the local municipality launched 15 years ago on photos of Lagarfljótsormurinn. The prize was never paid out because none of the photos entered were thought to show the monster.
However, the district council at the time promised that if the monster would ever be caught on camera, the photographer would be entitled to the prize.
“A man pointed it out to me so I decided to ask to check whether my video would be worth the prize,” Hjörtur told Fréttablaðið.
When asked whether he truly believes that his video shows Lagarfljótsormurinn, Hjörtur referenced a famous author: “Þórbergur Þórðarson said it characterized the inhabitants of Hérað that they never believed what they saw. I’m not like that.”
Another farmer in the region, Sigurður Aðalsteinsson from Vaðbrekka in Jökuldalur, has also entered a photo of what he claims is the monster to the competition.
“The same must apply to that photo as to Hjörtur’s video,” commented Mayor of Fljótsdalshérað Björn Ingimarsson, stating that the district council takes the competition very seriously.
According to ruv.is, members of the district council all stated that they didn’t doubt the monster’s existence. However, as guardians of public funds, they cannot pay out the prize money without carefully investigating the matter first.
And so a so-called “truth commission” was established to determine the authenticity of the video and the phenomenon it shows. The commission comprises of district council members, a natural scientist and a parliamentarian.
The commission will not be paid for its efforts but has been given a long time to complete the task, until the end of the current term.

Click here to read more about Lagarfljótsormurinn.

הכותב יוסי לוי joseph levy הינו מומחה לאיסלנד iceland, המלווה קבוצות בנהיגה עצמית בלבד, והמתכנן מסלולי טיול לפי מידת המטייל,והמשמש כמומחה באתר http://www.gotravel.co.il/.
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06 יולי, 2012

North Iceland Lake’s “Poop Balls”

01.07.2012 | 18:00

North Iceland Lake’s “Poop Balls” About to Disappear

The rare phenomenon marimo (a.k.a. lake ball or moss ball), known as kúluskítur (literally: “poop ball”) in Icelandic is about to disappear from Lake Mývatn in northeast Iceland, according to research by Japanese plant physiologist Isamu Wakana.

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Marimo. Photo by ESA.

Wakana is currently in Iceland for the sixth time to study the Mývatn marimo, which is believed to be one of only two locations where it exists in the world. The other is Lake Akan in Japan, ruv.is reports. However, there are reports that it may exist elsewhere too.
Wakana dived in the lake on Thursday with employees of RAMY (the Mývatn Nature Research Center) in attendance to study the marimo’s state.
“We started suspecting two years ago that the marimo had decreased to such an extent that there are hardly any left,” said RAMY’s director Árni Einarsson. “When we first discovered it in 1978 there were […] tens of millions of lake balls in Mývatn, now there only appear to be a few hundred left.”
The remaining balls are scattered over a rather small area and their condition is not good. “They look rather limp, not firm and beautiful as they should be […] and hollow inside,” Árni said in description of their state.
Árni said it isn’t clear what is causing this development and it must be studied in more detail. The lake balls are known to be sensitive towards currents and light conditions, which depend on the amount of sediment in the lake.
A marimo is a rare growth form of filamentous green algae (Chlorophyta) where the algae grow into large green balls with a velvety appearance, as stated on Wikipedia.
Marimos are displayed at Sigurgeir’s Bird Museum on the banks of Lake Mývatn.

Click here to read more about the bird museum.


הכותב יוסי לוי joseph levy הינו מומחה לאיסלנד iceland, המלווה קבוצות בנהיגה עצמית בלבד, והמתכנן מסלולי טיול לפי מידת המטייל,והמשמש כמומחה באתר http://www.gotravel.co.il/.
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