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Akureyri is a town in northern Iceland. Akureyrarbær is Iceland's fifth most populous municipality and the largest outside the Capital Region. The municipality includes the town's neighbourhood at the head of Eyjafjörður and two farther islands: Hrísey at the mouth of Eyjafjörður and Grímsey off the coast.
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John Gerard was an English herbalist with a large garden in Holborn, now part of London. His 1,484-page illustrated Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597, became a popular gardening and herbal book in English in the 17th century. Except for some added plants from his own garden and from North America, Gerard's Herbal is largely a plagiarised English translation of Rembert Dodoens's 1554 herbal, itself highly popular in Dutch, Latin, French and other English translations. Gerard's Herball drawings of plants and the printer's woodcuts are mainly derived from Continental European sources, but there is an original title page with a copperplate engraving by William Rogers. Two decades after Gerard's death, the book was corrected and expanded to about 1,700 pages.
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Akureyri Airport is a single-runway international airport in Akureyri, Iceland, 3 kilometres south of the town centre. Icelandair and Norlandair link the airport with several domestic locations, as well as easyJet, Edelweiss Air and Transavia serving seasonal international destinations. In the period 2009 to 2024 the airport has seen numerous improvements and expansions to better equip the airport for international flights. A new expanded passenger terminal is currently under construction, due to be completed by 2024.
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The Akureyri Botanical Garden is located on the west side of the inland end of the fjord Eyjafjörður at about 45 metres elevation. It is located in the southern part of the city of Akureyri in Northern Iceland, 50 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle. It is one of the northernmost botanical gardens in the world.
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Nonni's House is a museum in the Akureyri municipality in Iceland. The small wooden house, built around 1850, is one of the oldest houses in Akureyri. It was the home of the well known children's author and Jesuit priest Jón Sveinsson; also known as "Nonni". The museum was started in 1957 by the Zonta Club but they gave it to the Akureyri municipality in 2008.
Ragna Róbertsdóttir is an Icelandic artist. She was educated in Iceland and Sweden.
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- ↑ "Skrudur Botanical Garden". Guide to Iceland. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ↑ "The Pharmacy Museum And The Herbal Garden". The Iceland Museum Guide. Retrieved 2024-04-17.