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Invited Lecture
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On September 20th, Richie Williams (WHFC) presented an invited lecture
on "Iceland: Magical Land of Ice and Fire" to the Connecticut Academy
of Arts and Sciences at the Kline Geology Laboratory, Yale University
in New Haven, CT. The lecture was part of Iceland's Millennium
Celebration and the program associated with the 4-day visit of the
Islendingur to New Haven during its 3-month voyage from Reykjavik,
Iceland, to Greenland, eastern Canada, New England, and New York. The
Islendingur is a replica of the Gokstad, a Viking ship exhumed from a
burial site in Norway and on display, with another burial ship, the
Oseburg, in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway. Iceland's Millennium
Celebration honors the Norse discovery of North America in ca. A.D.
1000, the ephemeral settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, northern
Newfoundland, and the conversion of Icelanders to Christianity at
the annual meeting of the Althing at Thingvellir, Iceland, in A.D. 1000.
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October 2000
in this issue:
Florida Bay Red Grouper
Divers at Turners Falls
Long Island Sound
cover story:
Boston Harbor Clean-Up
Sea Floor Mapping DVD-ROM
Santa Cruz Shark Festival
Natural Systems Restoration
Mapping Tools for Fisheries
Alaska Geologic Mapping
Coral Reef Task Force
Gulf of Mexico Sediments
Viking Celebration
Iceland Lecture
Congratulations
Visitors
October Publications List
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U. S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey
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