American reacts to Iceland for the first time 

These are northern lights. They are created by the solar wind. But they forgot the fire. Some of the most active vulcanos are there.

What this totally omitted is the towns. Reykjavik is the capital, a thoroughly modern city with a population of around 140,000. The northernmost town, Akureyri, is just short of the Arctic circle. I have been to Iceland in winter and also in summer, when it hardly gets dark and the hills are covered with wild flowers. Because of the abundance of hot springs, Icelanders often have hot tubs outside their houses. It's fun to sit with your friends in a hot tub while the wind blows a little loose snow around. The Icelanders also use the free hot water to heat huge greenhouses where they can grow fruit and vegetables all year round, including tomatoes and even bananas. I'd love to go again. Great place.

I live in Iceland, far north there even. All of the footage came likely from the centre of the country which is practically an uninhabitable, un-constructable-on wasteland, kind of like Australia but fewer spiders. Most of the Ice footage came from either the huge glaciers which are visible on most maps, or from glacier lagoons, both clips likely taken in the winter. The house in the video was a many centuries old church likely, given the cross on the roof, but Icelandic people would live in "Torfhús" which were small, one story buildings connected to each other on little farms with livestock, mostly sheep, and with every generation of the family, the houses are very identifiable by the dirt and grass roofs. People lived in them all the way till the mid 1900s when the Americans and the British occupied and developed the island during WW2 as a base in the Atlantic. Icelandic architecture is usually very colourful and modern with older neighbourhoods around too, check out buildings such as Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík and Hof in Akureyri, what I'm saying is we are a developed western country and we don't live in mud basically There are no polar bears, penguins live on the other side of the planet and seals aren't very common. It's mostly livestock like sheep and cows, or wildlife like foxes, birds or reindeer (those herd animals in the video were reindeer). Do consider visiting!

Hey Ryan, an Icelander here. Been watching your videos for some time and found it very interesting to see a video about my country. You definitely need to find some other videos of Iceland. This seems to be made by some "video nerds" wanting to show off their abillities 😅 A lot is about Iceland is missing in this video. There is nothing from Iceland in summer, there are no Icelandic people, houses or other animals than horses ("wearing their wintercoats") and reindeer. All the people you see in this are tourists... Nothing about the geysers (geyser is one of the very few Icelandic words in modern day English 😉). Then what seems to surprise you is the Aurora borealis or northern lights. This is something you may see (there are no guarantees) from late August until late April or early May (depending on weather). The airplane is an old US Airforce plane that landed there due to some engine problems. To me, as an Iceland, I don't understand what is the fuzz about it, hiked to it about 2 years ago in an excellent weather (sun shining, no wind) and too me it was just as someone had left its trash in nature 😅 Small info: Iceland is larger (in land mass) than many other much better known countries, mostly due to lack of people and the isolation it had for centuries. As an example then Iceland is larger than those European countries (not combined 😉): Ireland, Portugal, Denmark, The Netherlands (Holland), Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania - just to mention a few :) Iceland is about the same size as Kentucky in USA.

The Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) - and it's equivalent the Southern Lights (Aurora Australis) - is caused by energised particles from the solar wind following the Earth's magnetic field towards the ground near the poles, and agitating the molecules in the air, causing them to glow, the colour depending on what gaseous element is being agitated: Green / green-yellow glow is predominantly due to Oxygen; Blues, pinks, purples and reds are down to nitrogen.

Penguins don't live in the northern hemisphere (except in zoos, etc.).

Iceland is more green than Greenland. Greenland is more icy than Iceland.

Iceland is truly like another world - they missed so much in the video - The whole Island sits on the mid Atlantic tectonic ridge and is literally being pulled in half at a rate of about an inch a year - you can take scuba diving tours and dive between the tectonic plates. As a result of it's location it has 130 volcanos lots of hot springs and geysers - springs where boiling water / steam burst out of the ground under pressure, - they stink of sulphur and the mineral deposits make the surrounding ground look like an alien landscape. It gets dark for months in winter and light for months in summer. You can see the entrance to centre of the world (according to Jules Verne) across the bay from the capital city. The horses are a unique protected breed - no other horses allowed, and if any leave they can't come back, they also have different ways of running to most horses. It's history and people are equally mad It's the only country to have democratically voted to be Christian. The remoteness has resulted in some weird delicacies - fermented shark and sheep's faces among them It's the home of Formula off road racing - Driving 1500 horsepower nitrous injected lunatic machines up cliffs Repeated gone to "War" with the UK over cod fishing - having navel vessels playing bumper cars around the north Atlantic, a strange example of human's inability to resolve disputes sensibly. They mostly don't do family / surnames That's just a small sample there's plenty more unique and unusual things about it and it is even more stunningly beautiful than the video shows.

Iceland is fantastic, I've been there many times. Icelandic horses are the best breed on the planet. There are some cities and small towns and remote farms but also a lot of uninhabited places. There are no polar bears or penguins! Seals, whales, arctic fox, many birds you will find there. The animals you didn't recognise were reindeer. In the summer it's very green, it's not as cold as the name suggests.

as someone who is from iceland i absolutely love reading these comment hahaha

Just to make one thing clear, there is a reason why polar bears do not eat penguins. Polar bears the arctic, penguins the ANtarctic. ;)

I thought everyone knows what aurora is 😅

Those amazing colours in the night sky are called The Northern Lights. Not every night - a bit hit and miss for tourists who have gone on a mini break specifically to see them.

"What was that?" Nothern lights is when charged particles captured by earths magnetic field enters the atmosphere and makes it glow.

I have been there twice in Summer and in early spring. It is beautiful! What is NOT in this video is this is the most volcanic country on earth! There are frequently erupting volcanos and geysirs (they invented this word! ) and hotpools that are so hot and acid they will take your meat of the bone 😛 And there are also many most enjoyable warm natural baths and there so many waterfalls you just can not avoid seeing them . The weather is very much changing during the day . There are no pinguins (as they live only in the southern hemisphere) and there are no polar bears. The biggest predators (besides humans) are adorable polar foxes smaller than the red foxes most of us know. They are fluffy and (depending on the season ) dark grey to white. Food is extremely expensive and alcohol too !

I love your content! Could you please react to other European countries? Because there are a lot of beautiful ones, that most people don't even know exist!

I went to Iceland on a geography trip in high school, it’s honestly like a whole other world and I’d kill to go back

Been there a few times. A must see spot (and there are tons of them) is Diamond Beach. Huge blocks of ice lying on a black sand beach with mist all around them. They're totally see through and some of them are like 2.5 meters tall.

My Viking ancestors sailed from Iceland to Norway, then on to Shetland, Orkney and mainland Scotland. My surname Tait comes from the Old Norse word ‘teitr’ meaning happy, glad and cheerful! 😊😊😊

Heading there in October! Very excited for our trip.

Well now you gotta watch atleast one more vid of Iceland.. That one showed beautiful scenery but nothing about the volcanoes, the geysers, that lake where you can dive in clear blue water between the actual tectonic plates, also the beautiful city Reykjavik.

Make a stopover for a few days from US to Europe and visit Iceland. And by the way, there are pleasant cities and people there. This video isn’t showing Iceland at all! Oh, and don’t forget the geysers.

There are only half a million Icelanders….and they are fiercly protective of their language…so they constantly invent new words to cover things like tv or computer not using any latin or greek.

Iceland is one of the expensive country to visit here in Europe and i love the nature attractions. It is a volcano island and popular also for northern lights in winter. I wanted to be back soon.

hihi...those were the northern lights....most beautiful thing in the world....was between the first tings i looked up since youtube came.....i knew about them from books and them from school

Lighthouses are all automated nowadays. Maybe some rare exceptions exists. One of the most spectacular lighthouses is La Jument in Brittany, France. Build in the sea on a small rock that costs hundreds of shits. There's a serious of insanely spectacular photographs taken of the keeper standing in the doorway while 100 feet high waves hit the lighthouse from the other side. Spectacular. It was automated in 1991.

I remember in the Simpsons, when Moe was with Homer and Lenny going to Iceland and said, from a guide, how the people swapped names with Greenland to confuse the Vikings, then when Moe was in Iceland he was angry because it snowed and he was freezing.

The house is a sod house - as Iceland doesn’t grow timber. Btw northern Europe had sod houses too, including my Netherlands (not for lack of wood though, but out of poverty).

What a strange film - ice cool for sure, but it's all nature and no signs of life - and no hot springs or geysers either, which it's also famous for! No Reykjavik (population around 80 000) or other settlements, no roads, airports or anything! Lots of Aurora Borealis of course, as you'd expect (The Northern Lights, which are often seen in the skies of Northern Europe including Scotland and occasionally also England,) Ryan. Best viewed through a camera lens though... As well as green, they can also be yellow, red, blue, purple...!!

Pretty sure lighthouses are all automated now

We went to Iceland when I was a kid, the year was probably 1981. One thing I remember about the houses there is that from a distance, they looked like normal wooden houses to me. But close up, we noticed that the walls were actually made of metal. Because they don't have much wood there. This video didn't show the geysir. The one that erupts every few minutes or so. I remember I was trying to take a photo of it and stood there with the camera ready, but always pressed the button too late, so we didn't get any good pictures of it. My mother had her film camera though, so probably it didn't matter that I messed up the photos. We brought at least two plastic bags full of lava rocks home with us because they weighed almost nothing and I guess at that time they allowed people to bring all kinds of junk into planes anyways. I'm not sure why we thought we needed that many of them. I think we just forgot about them soon afterwards and never actually showed them to anyone. But Iceland is certainly worth a visit, because the nature there is so totally different compared to most other places. It is one of the few places that I'd like to visit again some day. The last time I was maybe a bit too young to appreciate it properly.

2:12 I think this waterfall was featured in Game of Thrones.

i love the fact that this guy seems to know nothing abt anything outside of the usa, no hate but its just hilarious. love his videos so muchh

I was born and live in Iceland! Been a tiny fan of yours.

It's fun watching you learn stuff I've known for so long. Of course, I'm old. :)

My son visited Iceland and he loved it the funny colored sky is the Northern Lights which is something to do with the sun and particles interacting. The people are very friendly and welcoming

The western half of Iceland is actually on your tectonic plate, i.e. the North American Plate. (The eastern half is on ours ;-)

most lighthouses now are automated, I don't know what the case is in Iceland, but in Norway, all of them are automated. If sailors see a lighthouse (or other navigational markings) not working, they will notify whoever is responsible for the lighthouses in that country, and they will deploy a small team that is responsible for maintaining them in that area.

Regarding movies made here.. Well we have Star Wars using Iceland a lot in the 21st century. But the big well known one is GOT. You even had the reference The Land of Ice and Fire. That's a GOT book title basically so yeah. Used a lot. Iceland and New Zealand are sort of the go to places when it comes to landscapes needed for some big thing. LOTR is the ones that springs to mind.

The green one was the northern lights, where particles from the sun collide with the earth's magnetic field.

They forgot the many volcanoes who are regularly very active. And yes, there are villages and a city there.

I went to iceland this winter... it was AMAZING!

Amazing how they could make a video on Iceland without showing the cities, towns or icelandic people, looks like the few people here captured there were tourists lol Houses used to be built like the small house shown with the grass on the roof. In the earliest of days humans and animals lived under the same roof, I can't imagine it smelled good in those houses. The northern lights can be fantastic here. I was going to stay out in the country one time and my friends and I shared a car. It was pitch black, no light pollution at all and this amazing string of northern light was on the sky. It moved so much and the speed in which it traveled was way faster than the speed my friend was driving at and we drove along with it for probably 10km and then it turned to another direction. It was so spooky, there was fog on the earth racing upwards, it was like in a horror movie. Here is a fun fact, the US practiced the lunar landing here and the Mars landing. We can only live on the coast but people have cottages all over the place except the glaciers and the desert. Yes we have a desert. We have the oldest surviving Parliament in the world called Alþingi founded in 930 at Þingvellir We are a pacifist nation, we don't have a military and we are the safest and most peaceful country in the world.

Iceland is so so beautiful ❤ Part from waterfalls there are volcanos and a lot of hot springs, in some you can swim (for example Blue Lagoon, magical place). Many are to hot and there are geysers (like hot fountains from the grounds). They more or less has heating for free thanks to that. Nearly no trees. Iceland is devided by a crack between the euroasian and american plate (geologically), which explane the voulcan activity. They have their special icelandic pony which has five types of pase! Unic for that rase. Most people live in the capitol Reykjavik. They are part of Scandinavia and the viking culture (who immograted mostly from Norway from the 800 bc) and has the oldest democracy in the world though the "alltinget", sort of a parliament, which started in the 900 centuary.

The population is passing 400,000 by the end of the year with the capital area around 253,000

I´m Icelandic and you are welcome to visit and i will show you around

Fun fact Iceland is top 1 of the safest countries ❤

The American astronauts went to Iceland before going to the moon. It was thought to have a similiar terrain so they could see what they might have to copd with.

its not so cold in iceland, but its never hot either, but what many fail to realise is that what is dangerous about the climate here is the weather it self, the endless storms combines with freesing temps, avalanches and so on.

An hej, check out Reykjavik. Allmost every one Who lives In Island, lives there. Really True rock city. AWESOME country and really nice people. Cheers To them from a finn🤘

Most of the light houses are automated today and most of them have also Meteorologist stations, but there are some lighthouses that are on farmers land, so they have to take the role as reporting the forecast and or maintain (man) the light houses, as a second job, I lived for two summers, isolated at a farm with a light house, and it was magical.........

I went to Iceland before the pandemic. Such a beautiful and unique place.

Thanks for the shoutout:D (I’m from iceland)

This country is so very beautiful. Check out Tim and Fin Iceland.

Lenge leve Iceland. I would like to live there. Maybe one day. 🇮🇸🇧🇻. This is where Floki came in Vikings, at 2min 13s.

The video is shot during the winter but summer is really pleasant, there is almost no snow outside the glaciers on and you can drive everywhere with a car, even though for some places you need a 4wd. It's a wonderful country.

Check out more on Iceland at Just Icelandic, and awesome drone footage of The latest volcanic eruption from Isak Finnbogason - Iceland FPV

Other supermarkets are available

The light display in the night sky is called aurora borealis.

Ísland again! I feel represented.

10º or 13ºc..... pleasant.... im Mediterranean, i would die in those temperarures. ( just kidding Iceland is actually in my bucket list of places to visit ) Oh and those green lights are the " nordern lights " or Aurora Borealis.

Iceland and Norway are both beautiful and economically successful countries, but I wonder why US reaction channels focus almost exclusively on Northern Europe, and rarely take a look at Spain or Portugal or Greece, or even France. These are countries which have contributed greatly to the American way of life.

The green light in the sky is aurora borealis aka northen lights

Hey dude, I’ve just seen your reaction to “flower of Scotland” from a while back. I think you should listen to the one performed for the Scotland Vs England 150th anniversary soccer game yesterday. Possibly the best I’ve ever heard, much better than the rugby version you heard.

The horses are the most purebred horses on the planet.

That was Aurora Borealis better known as The Northern Lights, that are visible to all countries that encircle The Arctic Circle.

It's fine, we don't actually live on the glaciers lol. We don't have polar bears or penguins but we have arctic foxes and reindeers.

I would love to see you visiting there

As an icelandic person, yes we live in igloos

They forgot to show volcanoes in this video...

Man, this video reminded me of how beautiful our world can actually be

Please don't think that all of them live out there :,D This is footage of the nature in Iceland. As others have mentioned: there are also towns in Iceland. People always think that it is freezing cold in Iceland but, while the northern part of this wonderful place might be quite cold especially during winter, the southern coast benefits from the Gulf stream so temperature do not drop that low. I have the weather in Reykjavik on my phone and sometimes it is warmer there than here in Germany. I would absolutely want to live there. However, it gets really dark during winter (with only 3 or 4 hours of daylight) and I would hate that.

Going on a plane from Stockholm to NY you fly over Iceland. I had a window seat and looking down at the icy water I thought I saw a boat until it dived under the water and I realised I was looking at a whale!

Weather in Iceland can be uncomfortable, never extreme (Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Floods). You will NEVER experience a heatwave in Iceland, but neither will you experience extreme cold - all due to the maritime climate. Also, we have LOTS of hydroelectric and geothermal power (to heat our houses, swimming pools and hot tubs), not to mention pure drinking water virtually everywhere. This video is all about Icelandic nature, mostly in winter. There is nothing about the people living there.

Sometimes you can see the northern light's in the sky in the North of England / Scotland

Aurora borealis or the northern lights

"Is that a plane?" Nah, it's a goat. 5:57 to 6:09 I mean really Ryan, c'mon!!

Those dancing green lights, have you never heard of Aurora borealis?

What causes "that" is called the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Is changed particles from the sun (solar wind) hitting our atmosphere at high speeds causing those lights shows

This is wintertime, maybe lookup Iceland in summertime

5:30 it s rein deer , it s a farm animal , like cows . it gives meat , milk and leather and i m pretty sure, it s colder in chicago than in reykjavik .

Ryan, you don't mean to tell me that you never heard of Northern Lights (Polar lights; Aurora Borealis). If so, then something must be seriously wrong with education in the USA! Sorry for being so blunt. I'm German, that might explain it.

Iceland is a little bit bigger than the entire island of Ireland.

The "what are those" animals are reindeer

Ryan, chill a bit! Polar bears a AND penguins! Apart from them never meeting each other none present on Iceland. In addition, no snakes or much plant species. Great country but kind of barren rock with elements, lava, ice, purest and most odorous water. And the wonderful people with strength and humor!

Fun fact, Iceland is greener than Greenland. Greenland is more icy than Iceland. :) People mostly live on the coast. They are descendants of the vikings, who travelled there from Scandinavia.

Its beautiful and frightening, did not show the Fire part. Thankfully not Smell-o-vision, It smells of rotten eggs, sulphur dioxide. Is also very difficult to sleep when its light for 23 hours per day, though hotels had good blackouts. I don't think I would like to cope with winter, dark for 23 hours per day. Also the cars are wild.

The Icelanders are direct descendants of the last Vikings. The Vikings were the only ones who lived there for centuries.

I recognized the channel "devinsupertramp" and instantly thought of "Lindsey Stirling".

The northern lights light up the night skies very often in the extreme north and south. This video didn't really live up to its title because it didn't capture Iceland's "fire". Iceland is extremely volcanic and makes the island an island of contrasts. it also didn't capture life in Iceland very well. If you were enthralled by its beauty, you should watch other videos about Iceland's other beautiful elements.

Dankeschön für das schöne Video Gruß aus Düsseldorf

What Ryan knows about anything outside of America you could write on the back of a postage stamp.He lives in his bubble and never leaves it like most average Americans so willfully ignorant.

Where's the cities/towns? where's the vulcanos?

3:19 -> There are no Penguins in the North Hemisphere... Lol~! 3:28 -> Northern Borealis (Aurora) are caused by various particles, mainly from Sun, interacting with Earth's magnetosphere... I don't believe you don't ever hear about these...

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Polar bears and penguins? Really, Ryan???? Did they teach you guys anything at school? Over 370,000 people live on Iceland. It's its own country with a distinct language etc. And these were reindeer.

If you haven't seen yet Ryan some videos from.norway etc be cool cheers

hi i live in icland but its not that bad🥰🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸

Unfortunately, this video almost only shows footage from the winter half year and only of the icy side of iceland... You need to watch a different video if you want to get a representative idea about what Iceland is. Is was there this summer btw.

The icelandic horse has 5 ways of walking/running. Other horses has only 3.