TRANSPORTATION
Roads:
Iceland has 13,058 kilometres (8,114 mi) (including tracks in the interior administered by the road authority) of roads, 4,397 kilometres (2,732 mi) of which are paved and 8,661 kilometres (5,382 mi) are not. Organized road building began about 1900 and has greatly expanded since 1980.
Railroads:
Iceland has no public railways, although proposals to build a passenger line between Keflavík and Reykjavík have been made. Several former locomotive-powered and hand-operated railways have closed and been dismantled, although some evidence of their existence remains in museums and as static exhibits.
Sea:
The major harbours in Iceland are:
- Akureyri
- Hornafjördur
- Ísafjörður
- Keflavík
- Raufarhöfn
- Reykjavík
- Seyðisfjörður
- Straumsvík
- Vestmannaeyjar
Merchant marine:
- total: 3 ships (with a volume of 1,000 gross register tons (GRT) or over) totaling 13,085 GRT/16,938 metric tons deadweight (DWT)
- ships by type: chemical tanker 1, container ship 1, petroleum tanker 1 (1999 est.)
Aviation:
As of 1999, there are 86 airports in Iceland:
Airport runways in Iceland
| Length |
Paved |
Unpaved |
Totals |
|
| over 3,047 m |
1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1,524 to 2,437 m |
4 | 3 | 7 |
| 914 to 1,523 m |
7 | 19 | 26 |
| under 914 m |
0 | 52 | 52 |
| Total |
12 | 74 | 86 |