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Lighthouse keeper receives Environmental Hero Award

By Sue Clark on Jun 21, 2007 in Restoration Print This Post Print This Post

Iceland’s last remaining lighthouse keeper, Óskar Jakob Sigurdsson, has been presented with the Environmental Hero Award by the US Ambassador in Iceland Carol van Voorst in a special ceremony at the US Embassy in Reykjavík. Since 1992 Sigurdsson has collected air samples for the GMD Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases group at the Stórhöfdi lighthouse on the Westmann Islands.

Sigurdsson has been lighthouse keeper at one of the oldest (100 years) lighthouses in Iceland since 1965. The position has been passed down from father to son for the past 96 years.

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