{"id":1836156,"date":"2025-01-24T08:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1836156"},"modified":"2025-01-24T08:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:56:46","slug":"a-map-of-polar-bears-in-iceland-where-they-dont-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/a-map-of-polar-bears-in-iceland-where-they-dont-belong\/","title":{"rendered":"A Map of Polar Bears in Iceland, Where They Don\u2019t Belong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Icelandic Institute of Natural History has mapped every known appearance of polar bears in Iceland<\/a>: \u201cPolar bears are not native to Iceland, although they do occasionally turn up in Iceland and are thus classified as vagrants. Information exists on just over 600 polar bears recorded as having arrived in Iceland from the beginning of human settlement on the island to the present day. This is a somewhat imprecise figure, since polar bears have undoubtedly come ashore without their presence going noticed, while bear sightings and encounters were not always documented in the past. The last polar bear observation was at H\u00f6f\u00f0astr\u00f6nd in J\u00f6kulfir\u00f0ir in September 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Icelandic Institute of Natural History has mapped every known appearance of polar bears in Iceland: \u201cPolar bears are not native to Iceland, although they do occasionally turn up in Iceland and are thus classified… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[413,1720,1640],"class_list":["post-1836156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-arctic","tag-bears","tag-iceland","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1820217,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/11\/earthquake-swarms-and-an-imminent-eruption-in-iceland\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836156,"position":0},"title":"Earthquake Swarms and an Imminent Eruption in Iceland","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 November 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"A swarm of thousands of earthquakes have been recorded on Iceland\u2019s Reykjanes Peninsula over the past three weeks. 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