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Article: Ice -- and more: Iceland amazes with stunning waterfalls, geysers and glaciers. And it amuses with bananas and 13 Santa Clauses.(www.icelandair.com)(www.icetourist.is.)(Column)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
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- March 12, 2006
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Byline: Eric Morse
Mar. 12--The building on the outskirts of Eyrarbakki (ay-rahr-BAH-key), a town of charming little wooden houses packed together protectively on Iceland's southern coast, looked like a modest-size American middle school, except for the razor-wire-topped fence surrounding it. "This is Iceland's largest prison," our guide, Ellert, said matter-of-factly. "It holds 80 people." My partner, Rick, and I were on the second of two days of excursions through the starkly beautiful landscape of Iceland, whose geography has been shaped by some of nature's most elemental forces. But throughout, we were struck by Icelanders' eagerness to highlight the ...