As the first woman to climb all the 14 eight-thousander peaks, Spanish mountaineer Edurne Pasaban has been awarded the 2017 Leif Erikson Exploration Award during the Explorers Festival in Húsavík …
Mountaineer Edurne Pasaban awarded Leif Erikson Exploration Award Read More
TV Presenter and BBC World News Anchor Babita Sharma will present the Leif Erikson Exploration Awards in Húsavík this weekend. The awards are the highlight of the upcoming Explorers Festival, …
Babita Sharma to present Leif Erikson Awards in Húsavík Read More
This morning, employees and managers of PCC started their day by walking form the company’s Húsavík office to the work site at Bakki. This was in celebration of the World …
PCC workers celebrate World Car Free Day Read More
Following the collapse of the government last week, it has now become clear that Icelanders will vote in a new parliament, the third one in five years. The national election …
Iceland to hold third Parliamentary election in last five years Read More
The Children’s Weekend Sports, known in Icelandic as Íþróttaskólinn and offered to kids ages 2 to 6 by local sports club Völsungur, will return this winter on Saturday mornings at …
Popular children’s weekend sports return at Húsavík Sports Hall this winter Read More
This year in Husavik, the third edition of The Explorers Festival is taking place from September 21 to September 24. Whole event consists of a series of talks by the …
Third Explorers Festival starts in Húsavík tomorrow Read More
Museum director and hotelier Örlygur Hnefill Örlygsson was elected President of Norðurþing town council at the council’s meeting today. Örlygur has served on the town council from May 2014. He …
Örlygur Hnefill elected president of Town Council Read More
Students and teachers of Húsavík’s Secondary College FSH celebrated the school’s 30th anniversary today. The school was founded in 1987. Students showed off their work and welcomed the people of …
Students and teachers celebrate 30th anniversary of FSH Secondary College Read More
Húsavík.com was founded in 1998 by Friðrik Sigurðsson as a portal for local business, services and tourism. Around the same time, Örlygur Hnefill Örlygsson started writing his first news websites …
Welcome to the new Húsavík.com Read More
American explorer Scott Parazynski was awarded the Leif Erikson Exploration Award earlier this evening during the final night of the Explorers Festival in Húsavík. As a veteran of five Space …
American astronaut, modern Norwegian vikings and Indian twin climbers win exploration awards Read More