Eastern Time is 3 hours ahead of Pacific Time. The mainland U.S. has four time zones (Alaska and Hawaii each have their own time zones, which makes a total of 6 different timeâ¦ zones for the U.S.). From west to east, the mainland U.S.'s time zones are: Pacific Time, Mountain Time, Central Time and Eastern Time.
Wildlife in Iceland. Reindeer were imported to Iceland in the 18th Century from Norway. They once lived wildly around the whole country, but now survive only in Eastern Iceland. There are around 3000 wild reindeer in Iceland, and their population is controlled with seasonal reindeer hunting permits. This ensures they do not damage the fragile highlands or grow to unsustainable herd sizes that would take food away from all the visiting sheep every summer.
Puffins. Iceland is home to one of the world's largest colonies of puffins: over half of the worldÂ´s population of the Atlantic Puffin breeds in Iceland, somewhere between 3 - 4 million pairs each year.The total population of puffins in Iceland is estimated to be between 8 and 10 million birds.The Atlantic Puffin is one of the four species of puffins and the one most commonly found in Iceland. Icelandic word for puffin is âlundiâ.celand has twice as many sheep as people. In northern Iceland you can see the sun go down, go half into the ocean and start rising again on the summer solstice. Iceland was the first nation in the world to elect a woman president, Vigdis VigdÃ­s, finnbogadottir finnbogadÃ³ttir. in 1980