The mystery of a series of polar bear tracks which appeared on an Icelandic glacier this week has been solved. Polar bears are not native to the island nation, though they do occasionally hop an iceberg ride over from Greenland, so when a set of tracks that appeared to be large enough to suggest a polar bear had trekked across the Langjökull ice cap, local officials were quick to launch an investigation.
On Wednesday, RÚV, The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, reported that a hunter had alerted the police to the presence of what he believed might be polar bear tracks on the ice cap, some 80km from the coast.
