Whaling Station (Site Type Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Magnus Rafnsson. Ragnar Edvardsson.

This is a report of the excavations at Strákatangi in Strandasýsla in 2008. Continuous excavations since 2005 have revealed extensive remains from foreign whalers in the area. The remains of four structures are visible at the Strákatangi site, three of them are clustered together and the fourth at some distance from the main cluster. The three structures that have been excavated from 2005 are tryworks, a large building with three rooms (habitation) and one smaller building...

PROJECT CUNY Northern Science and Education Center. Thomas McGovern.

This project file contains NABO publications. NABO was founded over 20 years ago to attempt to cross-cut national and disciplinary boundaries and to help North Atlantic scholars make the most of the immense research potential of our damp and lovely research area. NABO has worked to aid in improving basic data comparability, in assisting practical fieldwork and interdisciplinary ventures, in promoting student training, and in better communicating our findings to other scholars, funding...