We highly recommend that you read these five books prior to departure:
Iceland Travel and Current Events
- GeoCamp Iceland
- Visit Iceland
- Visit Reykjanes
- Visit Reykjavik
- Reykjavik Grapevine (news)
- Icelandic Met Office (weather)
Guidebooks and Travel Maps
- Lonely Planet Iceland
- Rick Steve’s Iceland
- DK Eyewitness Top 10 Iceland
- National Geographic Adventure Travel Map Iceland
- Walking and Trekking in Iceland
- Iceland Geology
Historical Maps
- Mapping the Land of Fire and Ice Essay (Library of Congress)
Iceland Maps from the David Rumsey Collection
Books
- How Iceland Changed the World
- The Far Traveler
- The Sea Road
- The Sagas of Icelanders
- The Vinland Sagas
- Independent People
- Cod
- North: The New Nordic Cuisine of Iceland
- The Little Book of the Icelanders
- A Traveller’s Guide to Icelandic Folk Tales
TV Shows
About Iceland…
- Hraunið (2014)
- Case (2015)
- Trapped (2015)
- Katla (2021)
- Against the Ice (2022)
Scenes filmed in Iceland…
- Game of Thrones (2011-2019, especially Season 2 and after)
- Vikings (2013-2020)
- Fortitude (2015-2018)
- Sense8 (2015-2018)
Movies
About Iceland…
- Land and Sons (1980)
- The Juniper Tree (1990)
- Children of Nature (1991)
- Cold Fever (1995)
- Devil’s Island (1996)
- Of Horses and Men (2013)
- Life in a Fishbowl (2014)
Scenes filmed in Iceland…
- A View to a Kill (1985)
- Die Another Day (2002)
- Batman Begins (2005)
- The Tree of Life (2011)
- Prometheus (2012)
- Oblivion (2013)
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
- Interstellar (2014)
- Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
- The Fate of the Furious (2017)
- Eurovision Song Contest (2020)
Inspirational Iceland Resources Developed by NCGE Members:
- Lesson Plans from GeoCamp Iceland Alumni, NCGE’s Resource Library
- Gielstra et al.’s (2023) “Escape Iceland” Virtual Reality Field Trip
- Cerveny et al.’s (2021) “Where is our Booth? Clan Organization at the Alþingi, Þingvellir, Iceland in Virtual Reality,” The Geography Teacher
- Moorman et al.’s (2020) “From Real to Virtual Reality–Using the Geographic Advantage with Emerging Technology to Pivot an International Interdisciplinary Experience,” The Geography Teacher
- Morrill and Waite’s (2019) “NCGE GeoCamp Iceland: Exploring Iceland’s Changing Landscapes and Diverse Environments,” The Geography Teacher
- Law’s (2019) “Exploring How Iceland’s Physical Geography Impacts Daily Life and Energy Use,” The Geography Teacher