We are so happy about the acceptance the Arctic Fox Centre has had in these first days of the opening - despite the football and all.
It looks like people are more than happy about our exhibition and it is sweet to discover the surprise on peoples faces when they enter the Café and realize that they can sit outdoors with their drink, enjoying the view over the sea and up to the mountains in the early summer sun. We are located in the oldest house in the village that has been rebuilt beautifully in an original way.  

We offer the greatest exhibition of arctic foxes available, with historical perspective - great café with internet access, new baked waffles, French chocolate cake, cold beer and wine etc.. etc..

Feel welcome and enjoy the relaxed atmosphere at the Arctic Fox Centre in Sudavik - Iceland

The opening of the Arctic Fox Centre was held last Saturday, June 12th
over 200 guests came and everyone was thrilled, including us, the people behind the centre
we had lots of greetings, for example from The President office, The minister of tourism, Katrín Júlíusdóttir, the minister of education, Katrín Jakobssdóttir, the minister of environment, Svandis Svavarsdóttir. Even Sir David Attenborough send us greetings, but he could not be there with us, busy making new extraordinary nature films for us.
From now on, the Arctic Fox Centre is open all days until the end of August from 10 in the morning to 18 (exhibition) and 10-22 (the CAFÉ). The Exhibition is a unique show about the arctic fox as the only original land mammal in Iceland, the hunting story and the story of the foxhunters.
We have great chocolate cake, brilliant coffee and warm waffles with rubarb jam and cream. We have open internet access and cold beer with snacks.
Feel welcome to visit us - learn and see - relax and enjoy
more photos of the opening are to be seen on the Sudavik web page

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Last Saturday we were lucky to have the members of the board and their families to help us preparing the furniture for the Café, as they all came in flat packing's. As everyone should know, we will open next Saturday, June 12th at 12 o'clock. All next weekend, June 12th to 13th, access to the exhibition will be free of charge. The exhibition will be open until 18 and the café until 22.
The job took all the 15 people three hours to finish the furniture and other things that needed to be put together. The sun was shining and we realized that people need to be aware of using sun protection while sitting at our platform during sunny days. But it´s so nice after visiting the exhibition to sit out there with cold drinks and make plans or just relax..

Tomorrow, Friday, June 4th, thousands of children, dressed up like arctic foxes, come in a parade in front of the Royal Palace in Karl Johan Square, Oslo.
These kids are members of environment-ambassadors, a project of children for nature. They will be accompanied by ten ministers of the parliament of Norway, who will walk with them towards the Royal palace.
These children love the arctic fox and they will deliver thousands of beautiful drawings of the species. They want to point out the importance of all species of animals in Norway and build up a world with space for everyone; humans, animals and plants.
Nowadays there are only 50 adult arctic foxes in the country and 2000 other species endangered. In the next decade, 285 of those could become extinct.
The thousands of "arctic foxes", the ministers and other participants will learn each other a special arctic fox dance which will be danced in the art scenario at Spikesgruppa in Oslo tomorrow.
We hope to get a visit by Norwegian kids who can teach us the arctic fox dance so that we can dance with them at the arctic fox centre..

Our summer employees have begun to work at Eyrardalur, the old house where The Arctic Fox Centre is located. These are Runa, Inga Vala, Fanney, Fjóla and Hjörleifur. As the tradesmen were still at work, they were harassed by a group of people, heavy weaponed with scrubbing brooms and wet rags. There is no time to waste; the centre will open the exhibition and Café on June 12th - only 9 days ahead...
After June 12th the exhibition will be open all days until end of August from 10 to 18 and the Café will be open all days until 22....
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Wildlife and landscape photography May 29, 2010 in the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve. Hornstrandir, a Nature Reserve since 1975, is a remote area with majestic bird cliffs, unspoiled nature and wildlife.

The arctic fox was the only terrestrial mammal in Iceland when the settlers arrived in the 9th century. In Hornstrandir Nature Reserve the arctic foxes have been protected since 1995 and it is now a sanctuary to Iceland´s most dense arctic fox population. Due to the protection, the arctic foxes in Hornstrandir have become tame and curious of the people passing by, making it an outstanding place to photograph them.

In late May it is a breeding season for both foxes and birds. The male arctic fox is busy foraging and defending the territory. The female spends most of her time inside the den with newborn cups and the male brings her food while the pups are too vulnerable to leave them. The cliff birds lay their eggs on the narrow shelves of the vertical walls in the cliff and the sound of million sea birds in the cliff is outstanding. Occasionally you see the gyrfalcons of Hornvik glide over the sea bird colonies as they also have mouths to feed, hatching earlier than other birds in the area.

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The Arctic Fox Centre just received a grant from the Westfjords Cultural Association. The grant is for the project „Exhibiton Arctic Fox - a childreens guidance".
The project is about three characters, all being foxes but two of which are arctic foxes (blue male and white female) and the third is a red fox (Mikki) from Hakkebakkeskogen in Norway (Thorbjörn Egner). They all meet in The Arctic Fox Centre, they get to know each other and the childreen learn about the differences and similarities of the species and adaptions to various habitats and seasons by their conversation as cartoons and puppies.
The project will be developing throughout the year but hopefully we can bring those interesting foxes alive already this summer, thanks to the Westfjords Cultural Association grant.

Álftafjörður (Swan fjord), where the little village Súðavík is located, you find various wildlife, both on land and water. The arctic tern colony at Langeyri pond is busy and noisy. They join their breeding grounds with eiders, greylag goose, whooper swans and red throated loons. Where rivers fall into the sea, you can see harlequin ducks and further out, long tailed ducks, sometimes a great northern loon or even a king eider. At and around Arnarneshamar cliff (oldest road tunnel in Iceland) you find numbers of fulmars and cormorants, sometimes accompanied by shags.
In the fjord you see various waders, such as oystercatchers, ringed plovers, golden plovers, purple sandpipers, dunlins, redshanks, snipes, red necked phalarope and whimbrels.
You could even spot a gyrfalcon, merlin or sea eagle along the shore and we have had a few grey herons in the fjord for several months but the species is not a resident bird in Iceland. Seals are common near the shore and look up on bypassers with curious faces, sometimes resting lazily on stones. Late summer and fall, a minke whale or two are a common sight on the sea, even close to land....
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We are now preparing the opening in June 12th and the carpenters, electrician and plumbers are working hard to finish the house in time.
The exhibition is in full progress and even though many of the obstacles we will use are still at „home" (a private property), some things are already in house (at least the director´s house). We just received 6 stuffed foxes from Þorvaldur Björnsson but Guðmundur Jakobsson has provided the animals (from regular hunting), with a little help from other hunters. Amongst the stuffed foxes are one sleeping white fox in winter fur, one playful almost full grown pup of white colour morph and then a winter fox from the rare beige colour morph, sometimes called „landrover". Furthermore, a female in blue winter fur, just sitting and a big male in winter fur of the blue morph with a lot of white/silver in its fur and seabird (winter custom) in its mouth.
We have got a lot of great gifts for the exhibition, as well as many borroved objects: for example two photos (Þórður Sigurðsson and Michelle Nielson), guestbook (Gunna Beta leather smith), fox tang (Ólafur Ö. Ólafsson), a gun (Helgi Bjarnason) and a drying mechanism for preparing fox skin (Kristján from Hvítanes).

Last weekend there was an exhibition in Perlan, Reykjavík - where all regions of Iceland were introduced as "The Pearls of Iceland". Of course the West fjords are the most precious pearls and The Arctic Fox Centre consider itself as one.
We took two of our four legged friends with us (stuffed arctic foxes of various colors) and they fitted well in amongst old driftwood and sea rocks.

We recommend a tour around West fjords since it is without a doubt one of the greatest pearl of Icelandic nature:
Beautiful and various landscape, huge bird cliffs, guidance on mountains and fjords, kayaks, sailboat, hiking, skiing, jogging, bird watching, and not least: the paradise of birds and arctic foxes - Hornstrandir Nature Reserve.
- not to mention local food, music and exhibitions with natural and historical heritage, in each region; vikings, predators, monsters and magic..