Vágar, Faroe Islands Webcams

Vágar is one of the 18 islands in the archipelago of the Faroe Islands and the most westerly of the large islands. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Faroese, of Norse and Celtic descent.

Vágar

The Faroe Islands are dominated by tholeiitic basalt lava which was part of the great Thulean Plateau during the Paleogene period.

The early history of the Faroe Islands is not well known. Irish hermits (monks) settled in the sixth century, introducing sheep and oats and the early Irish language to the islands. Saint Brendan, who lived circa 484–578, is said to have visited the Faroe Islands on two or three occasions (512-530 AD), naming two of the islands Sheep Island and Paradise Island of Birds.

Due to the rocky terrain and relatively small size of the Faroe Islands, its transportation system was not as extensive as other places of the world. Vágar Airport has scheduled service to destinations from Vágar Island. The largest Faroese airline is Atlantic Airways.

Second camera located here.

Kópasker, Iceland Camera

Kópasker is a small village in northeast Iceland, situated on Öxarfjörður. The district between Tjörnes mountains in the west and Jökulsá (Glacier river) in the east is known as Kelduhverfi; Kópasker is the town of the community.

Kópasker

There are many streams, which come up under lava fields and they give the district its name. Keldur means quagmire. Jökulsá runs to the sea in Öxafjörður. It falls into one of the deepest and most terrifying gorges in Iceland, Jökulsárgljúfur.

A geologically young land, Iceland is located on both the Iceland hotspot and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which runs right through it. This combined location means that geologically the island is extremely active, having many volcanoes, notably Hekla, Eldgjá, Herðubreið and Eldfell. Iceland is one of two places on Earth where a mid-ocean ridge rises above sea level, making it an easily accessible site to study the geology of such a ridge.

Today, Iceland has some of the world’s highest levels of economic and civil freedoms.In 2007, Iceland was ranked as the most developed country in the world by the United Nations’ Human Development Index.

Svalbard, Arctic Webcam

Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Three islands are populated: Spitsbergen, Bear Island and Hopen.

Spitsbergen

Svalbard lies far north of the Arctic Circle. In addition to humans, four mammalian species inhabit the archipelago: the Svalbard field mouse, the Arctic fox, the Svalbard reindeer, and polar bears. Svalbard is also a breeding ground for large numbers of seabirds, including Brunnich’s and Black Guillemot, Puffin, Little Auk, Fulmar and Black-legged Kittiwake. Other seabirds include Arctic Tern, four species of skua, and the elusive Ivory Gull. See also: Flowers of Svalbard.

The Norwegian government has built a “doomsday” seed bank to store seeds from as many of the world’s crop varieties and their botanical wild relatives as possible.

Webcams at Neumayer-Station

Neumayer Station is a permanent German Antarctic research base. It is located on Atka Bay and was opened in 1992. This station in the Antarctic was established in 1981 on the Ekström Shelf Ice as a research observatory for geophysical, meteorological and air chemistry measurements, as well as a logistics base for summer expeditions.

Neumayer Station

Georg von Neumayer, whom the station is named after, was an important promoter of Germany’s research activities in Antarctica. The snow-covered Neumayer Station is located on shelf ice that is 650′ (200m) thick and almost completely flat. All that can be seen from the distance are the towers of the station entrance, which project 6-7′ over the snow.

Nine or at most ten people live and work at Neumayer Station during the Antarctic winter: a medical doctor who also acts as the head of the station, a meteorologist, an airchemist, two geophysicists, an engineer, an electrician, a radio operator/electronics engineer and a cook.

O’Higgens Base Antarctica

This is the best time of year to watch the Gentoo penguins raising their young. Penguins arrive in late September to breed, and they depart the following April. There are multiple cameras to view with varying refresh rates.

Penguin Cameras

The cameras capture live images of the Penguins, and zoomed cameras provide the chance to watch these fascinating creatures close at hand.

 

Building nests.

There are also stunning sunrises and sunsets from an area so remote few will ever see them firsthand.

Here is a link to the German weather station GARS with additional information and cams.