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Yea nope. Iceland does not have roads passable through the center of the island in the winter.

There was one occasion when the ring road was closed because of extreme wind in one spot.

The only way of getting to our destination 50km away would have been the full round of about 2000km.

In the population centers at the coast tho the temperature does not go much below freezing during the year but also rarely rises much above +15C.

An interesting place to visit.



According to every source on the Internet, circumnavigating Iceland appears to be ~1300 kilometers. It would require impressive detours to make that 2000 kilometers.

Like I said, it is smaller than almost all US States. Iceland isn’t that large.


Fine 1300 instead of 2000. That is still an impressive detour for a road closure of any kind, no?




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