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País insular nórdico en el océano Atlántico Norte
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Join the room“Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.”
“The first attempt to run trawler fishing off Iceland was made in 1899 by an Englishman who had settled in Hafnarfjörður. The name of the ship was Utopia, which was prophetic because the enterprise came to nothing and was abandoned that same autumn.”
“No country is better prepared for natural disasters than Iceland. [...] We have long experience in dealing with volcanic eruptions. We know that it's not necessarily a sound decision to build for example defence mechanisms when you have such a great uncertainty where an eruption can come up.”
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Islandia es un país insular nórdico entre el océano Ártico y el océano Atlántico Norte, ubicado en la dorsal mesoatlántica entre Europa y América del Norte. Es el país más occidental y menos poblado de Europa. Su capital y ciudad más grande es Reykjavík, que alberga alrededor del 35% de los aproximadamente 395.000 residentes del país. El idioma oficial del país es el islandés. Islandia se encuentra en una grieta entre placas tectónicas, y su actividad geológica incluye géiseres y erupciones volcánicas frecuentes. El interior consiste en una meseta volcánica con campos de arena y lava, montañas y glaciares, y muchos ríos glaciares fluyen al mar a través de las tierras bajas. Islandia es calentada por la corriente del Golfo y tiene un clima templado, a pesar de estar en una latitud justo al sur del círculo polar ártico. Su latitud y la influencia marina mantienen los veranos frescos, y la mayoría de sus islas tienen un clima polar.
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