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Basemap World: a sleek, vector-based web map service with global and German data - interactive, customisable, and quite up-to-date basemap.de/produkte-und...

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Gas pollution cam be expected locally although the capital region is currently not in the path of gas dispersion from the eruption en.vedur.is/volcanoes/fa...

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The road to Grindavík has been closed by the authorities, but visitors should be able to get a glimpse of the eruption from Reykjanesbraut, the main road connecting the international airport of Keflavík with the capital Reykjavík umferdin.is/en

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The eruption was preceded by a series of earthquake tremors since midnight that indicated an increased activity close to the surface en.vedur.is/earthquakes-...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2025

Tourist eruption? The Reykjanes Peninsula has finally decided again to continue its eruption series at the height of the tourist season, The latest eruption in Iceland started at 3.57am last night en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...

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ISLAS 2025 🏝️ Westfjords Edition 🏔️ Our Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability summer school finally made it to Iceland! 🇮🇸 It was an inspiring week exploring Remote Communities in Transition @haskoliislands.bsky.social / @islandsmaster.bsky.social #ISLAS2025

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 11/07/2025

How much energy are you using on AI? www.datawrapper.de/blog/ai-ener...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 11/06/2025

Cross Stitch Land Cover Map of Iceland www.linkedin.com/posts/jjmcf_...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 11/06/2025

Climate change drives record-breaking heat in Iceland and Greenland challenging cold adapted ecosystems and societies www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 29/05/2025

UK Travel Visualiser - a neat little mapping project smstone0.github.io#/uk-map

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 16/04/2025

A whole new volcanic hazard map for the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland has been published by the Icelandic Met Office (Veðurstofa Íslands). Find out more about the redesign at en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 01/04/2025

The RUV livestreams should give a good view when (if) the eruption reaches the surface: www.youtube.com/live/kXD4A9u...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 01/04/2025

Is it there yet? It looks as if the next volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland is just about to begin. www.vedur.is/um-vi/fretti...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 28/02/2025

Biocubes: a visual story of the living and the built biocubes.net

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 27/02/2025

RIP Peter Haggett I vividly remember the first geography book I purchased as a first-year undergraduate in 1998. It made me realise how much more geography really is beyond what I had learnt at school.

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 27/02/2025

Mapping Favourite Colours - An Interactive ArcGIS Story Map storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d51f...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 25/02/2025

Nusantara Atlas - From Rice Fields to Beach Clubs, and Sprawling Cities: 60 years of Change in Southern Bali map.nusantara-atlas.org

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2025

Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 14/02/2025

Heart-shaped maps www.geographyrealm.com/heart-shaped...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 12/02/2025

Gulf of ______? Google (first map) quickly falling in line with the US administration's guidance that was adopted by the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), while Apple (second map) still being reluctant. blog.google/products/map...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 09/02/2025

Disappearing landscapes: The Arctic at +2.7°C global warming www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Visionscarto’s World Atlas: Natural Earth data revisited to reflect the UN's position on the integrity of Ukraine & the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara as well as 3 self-governing entities with an undecided UN status: Somaliland, Taiwan, and Kosovo observablehq.com/@visionscart...

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At least the Natural Earth Quick Start project files address this visually to some degree, though the geometries are an issue IMO (which may also apply to other disputed areas). At least the data is old enough to not have problems with more recent geopolitical claims ;-) www.naturalearthdata.com

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I know that this is documented in the changelog and that there are explicit notes and alternative data on the download pages - eventually the map maker is to blame. But I think it's still problematic to have such 'de facto' boundaries in a default dataset that is used by many non-professionals.

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 05/02/2025

Natural Earth is an amazing effort and valuable dataset. But I absolutely disagree with their 2022 decision to have Crimea connected to Russia as a default in their countries baselayer. Many users will adopt this in their maps without even noticing. Should this not at least be a separate polygon?

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Lightning in Iceland - a rare sight. Lightning striking Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík - what are the odds? (video via www.visir.is/g/2025268495...)

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 28/01/2025

Mercator extreme: Build the much beloved Mercator projection by substituting any point on earth as the "pole" mrgris.com/projects/mer...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 24/01/2025

Regional and institutional trends in assessment for academic promotion www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 10/12/2024

Lights in the North (Reykjavík, Iceland, 29 August 2024)

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 03/12/2024

In Focus: Mapping Disillusionment: The 2024 US Presidential Election journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 02/12/2024

NASA Earth Observatory: Lava near the Blue Lagoon earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15363...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2024

The Great German-Icelandic Bake Off: Presenting the Kartenkeks (Map Cookie). What took me so long to get a map shaped cookie cutter into my collection (courtesy of the German Embassy in Reykjavík)? A gap in the kitchen drawer that needs to be filled quickly!

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 26/11/2024

TerrainLines by Daniel Huffman: Amazing terrain sketches of mountains from around the world @pinakographos.bsky.social. There’s a free eBook at somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/a... and you can buy beautiful prints at www.etsy.com/shop/terrain...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 26/11/2024

Lava flow map update from Iceland: Here is the extent of the lava flows from the ongoing eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula. The eruption is now confined to the northernmost crater with main flows going towards the east. (map via www.vedur.is/um-vi/fretti...)

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 22/11/2024

Just another walk to work on a chilly winter morning in Iceland.

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 22/11/2024

Day 3 of the eruption on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula: Main lava flows are now towards the west at a pace of ~100m/hour. The extent of the lava field is further west than ever before. Considerable efforts were made to protect the Blue Lagoon from the approaching lava. www.vedur.is/um-vi/fretti...

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 22/11/2024

Lava 1 - 1 Blue Lagoon (with a little help of the public purse the connection between parking lot and the Blue Lagoon was secured with an artificial wall to protect the spa from the progressing lava flows, footage by @ruvfrettir.bsky.social)

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National Broadcaster @ruvfrettir.bsky.social has a lunchtime map update on the extent of the lava flows www.ruv.is/frettir/innl...

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Earlier this morning, Grindavíkurvegur - the most direct road connection between the town of Grindavík and Reykjanesbraut leading towards the International Airport and Reykjavik - was overflown by the lava yet again. Photos by Vísir's Vilhelm Gunnarsson www.visir.is/g/2024265279...

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Lava flows from the ongoing volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland are approaching the parking lot of the Blue Lagoon spa, according to observations made by the Suðurland Volcanoes and Natural Hazards Group www.facebook.com/plugins/post...

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Good morning from Reykjavík, Iceland.

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