Icelandic Australians

Icelandic Australians are Australian citizens of Icelandic ancestry, or persons born in Iceland residing in Australia.[1] The largest emegration from Iceland to Australia took place in the late 1960's, when the Australian government offered immigrants financial assistance at a time when the employment situation in Iceland was bleak.[2][3][4] There were 980 residents who reported Icelandic ancestry in the 2011 census.[5] They form the smallest part of the wider Scandinavian Australian group usually included in the census.

Icelandic Australians
Íslenskir Ástralir
Total population
980 (ancestry)
Regions with significant populations
Melbourne, Sydney
Languages
Australian English, Icelandic
Religion
Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism (minority)
Related ethnic groups
Icelanders, Faroese

Notable Icelandic Australians
  • Alan Gould, contemporary novelist, essayist, and poet
  • Svavar Egilsson, businessman[6]

See also

References
  1. "Íslenskir andfætlingar". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 28 May 1995. p. B1. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  2. "Ástralíumaður". Vísir (in Icelandic). 1 March 1963. p. 4. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  3. "Tíu flytjast til Ástralíu". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 16 February 1967. p. 2. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  4. "8 sækja um Ástralíuvist". Tíminn (in Icelandic). 28 November 1968. pp. 1, 15. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  5. "Iceland country brief". Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  6. Herdís Þorgeirsdóttir (1 November 1989). "Viðskiptajöfurinn Svavar Egilsson". Heimsmynd (in Icelandic). pp. 28–37, 116, 118. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
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