Icelandic Geographic

Icelandic Geographic

"Icelandic Geographic" is a magazine about the nature and people of Iceland, founded by Thordis Hadda Yngvadottir and Ketill Sigurjonsson. The magazine was published 2002-2005.

Icelandic Geographic organized and hosted the The "coolest" Travel Summit on the Planet; an international literary and photographic travel-event, held in Reykjavík in 2005.

The speakers and panelists at the Travel Summit were: Faith D'Aluisio (author and television news producer), Keith Bellows (Editor-in-chief of National Geographic Traveler and Vice President of National Geographic), Tim Cahill (travel writer and first editor of Outside Magazine), Annie Griffiths Belt (National Geographic photographer), Dan Hayes (editor of CNN Traveller), Rudy Maxa (host and co-executive producer of "Smart Travels"), Peter Menzel (photojournalist), Tim Moore (writer), Maureen and Tony Wheeler (founders of Lonely Planet), Thora Arnorsdottir (journalist), Ragnar Axelsson (photographer), Ari Trausti Gudmundsson (geophysicist and mountaineer), Unnur Jokulsdóttir (writer and world-navigator), Joseph Kultgen (co-founder of TrekShare.com), David Leffman (photographer and travel writer), and Soren Sattrup (Editor-in-chief of the Danish Politiken guidebooks).

External links

* [http://www.icelandicgeographic.com Icelandic Geographic]


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