Left unaddressed is whether polar bears can ever make it back to Greenland once winding up in Iceland. I'm guessing the answer is <i>only very rarely</i>, based on the rest of the article... But then again Iceland is 200 miles away and wouldn't have guessed they'd make it there so frequently in the first place.<p>Regardless of if there's any hope those bears could make it back to their population, it's clear that such hope would be an inconvenient truth for Icelanders -- at least, for the article's authors -- who would prefer to shoot them when they appear and be done with it. And I'm not saying that's not for the best.<p>As a side note, if we really want to know the answer without googling, we can put on our deducing hats: "Visits by five polar bears in 2008 (two bears), 2010, 2011, 2016 and 2024."