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Keflavik

Keflavík
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About Keflavik

Keflavík is a town in the Reykjanes region in southwest Iceland. It is included in the municipality of Reykjanesbær whose population as of 2016 is 15,129.

On the show4 mentions total

When they arrived in Keflavik, the locals gave them a salute of water — they got hose pipes so that the plane could go through them, which sounds dangerous, especially in Iceland.

from 602: No Such Thing As 'What's My Spoon?', 2025-09-25 at 00:27:36 · read transcript

Other times Keflavik came up

  1. Let's say you've got a load of mosquitoes that are. sterile and you want to put them in an area where they have disease problems like malaria or Zika or something and you put the sterile ones in there and they can outperform the non-sterell ones and then it hopefully stops them from hurting humans. How do you get them from A to B? Because mosquitoes, they don't really go on really long flights unless they get on the IS192 from Godthav to Keflavik they do. Normally they only go about 100 meters from where they were born. and so we need to get them from one place to another.

    No Such Thing As The Mosquito Effect, 2021-02-19 · listen

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Coordinates: 64.0167, -22.5667

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