Authorities have captured 197 suspected illegal fishermen on 23 boats in a two-week crackdown off the country's northern coastline.

In what should be an icy wasteland, fjords remain unfrozen, glaciers are melting and pack ice that once made the northern coastline impassable to ships has disappeared.

Surfing has become popular in recent times along the northern coastline of the parish.

There are few settlements on the northern coastline other than the occasional farmhouse.

In the surveyed area, mangrove swamps dominate the western part of the municipality which extends to its northern coastline.