Routes To London And Scandinavia: 3. The Gullfoss, a double waterfall of almost Niagaran proportions, is a magnificent sight, surpassing, I should say, all of its mighty rivals in Norway and Sweden. It lies 76 miles from the capital.
4. Hveragerdi, the hot-springs town of greenhouse gardens, has been mentioned above and will certainly call for mention as a spa in the Special Interests section below for it has great potentialities, but as a sight to see, it belongs right here. Its spouting jets, like a stage scene from Die.
Walkure, reminds me of only one other place I have ever seen, namely the Furnas Valley, on the Island of Sao Miguel in the Azores.
Northern Iceland has its own strong appeal and to reach it you will use Iceland Airways. This system, a member of IATA, carries some 40,-000 passengers a year on 22 local routes, in addition to its long-distance routes to London and Scandinavia. It is the backbone, with many ribs, of daily Icelandic travel, for the island has no railroads and will probably never feel a need for them. Akureyri and Siglufjord are the two northern towns of chief tourist interest.
Twelve-passenger freighters of the Iceland Steamship Co. (consult Thule Ship Agency, 11 Broadway, New York) ply between New York and Reykjavik and the same line's 3800-ton passenger ship Gullfoss plies between Copenhagen, Leith (Edinburgh) and Reykjavik, but most American visitors nowadays go by air. As I have said in Chapter 5, Iceland has developed two systems of air transportation, Icelandic Airlines (Loftleidir in Icelandic), which provides transatlantic flights from New York to Reykjavik and on to Scandinavia and Hamburg (and vice versa), and Iceland Airways (Flugfelag Islands), which operates many local routes in Iceland, besides having lines to London and Scandinavia, though not to New York. It is the Aiiways system that concerns us on the island.
Waterways of Europe.-Europe leads other regions in ease of communications, a transport of goods by water is of the highi order. This is largely due to the conformation the European region. The United States is look upon as having a favorable location with exo lent trade routes and is almost of equal size Europe in square miles; however, there are t 5,200 miles of shorelines in the United Stal compared with over 20,000 in Europe. Europ outline is that of a great peninsula upon whi are many other smaller peninsulas and nearl clusters of islands. The greatest trade routes Europe are water routes.
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