Just off Iceland’s South Coast, the Westman Islands offer dramatic scenery.

One of the most interesting places to visit on an Iceland road trip is a small dot just off the south coast, which goes by many names: the Westman Islands, Vestmannaeyjar or Heimaey (“home island” ...

TikTok users were shocked this week to learn of an Icelandic tradition that compels people to throw baby puffins, called “pufflings,” off of cliffs and into the waiting sea below, but the tradition of ...

Every year during the late summer, locals on a remote island off the coast of Iceland spend their evenings searching for disorientated puffin chicks — known as pufflings — and throw them off a cliff's ...

Police reported an unusually quiet start to Þjóðhátíð, also known as the National Festival. Very few incidents were recorded despite large crowds attending Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands), where the ...

The Baldur ferry resumed services across Breiðafjörður today after spending recent weeks operating between mainland Iceland and the Westman Islands. Jakob Björgvin Sigríðarson Jakobsson, mayor of ...