ICELAND

 

 

Here are some fun facts about Iceland!

1) Iceland has 13 Santa Clauses!

2) Iceland people learn Danish and English from the age of 11 years old!

3) Iceland people have made it to The Guinness Book of Records for drinking coke!

4) Iceland has little cracks and the people use its hot water to boil eggs!

 

 

Some natural resources from Iceland are: fish, hydropower,and geothermal power!!

 

Iceland has volcanoes, geysers, hot springs, oceans, mudpots, and fumorles!

 

 

Some fun facts about the country's natural resources are:

1) Iceland has the cleaniest water .

2) They heat their homes with thermal water as well as our outdoor swimming pool.

3) Iceland consists of only 290,000 inhabitants and people. 

 

 

Iceland has mountains.      

 

    Iceland is close to Europe. 

 

 

The population of Iceland is 304,367.

 

Iceland people speak  faroese, norweigian, danish and swedish.

 

 

Foods to try at Iceland are: 

lamb

meat

sheep

cheese

haddock

cod

plaice

halibut

herring and

shrimp.

Great Places for Kids/Teens to go:

Asbyrgi can certainly be counted as one of nature's wonders. This wonder of nature is 3 1/2 km long canyon with up to 100 m high walls occupied by fulmars during the breeding season. Asbyrgi is the northernmost section of the National Park Jokulsargljufur.

Glaciers of Iceland

Almost all types of glaciers are found in Iceland, ranging from the small cirque glaciers

to extensive glacier caps reminding one of the inland ice of Greenland. The latter are drained by broad lobe-shaped outlets or by valley glaciers of the alpine type.

Glacier fjords - Jokulfirdir

The West Fjords may not be one of the hot areas in Iceland. There are no active volcanoes but there are geothermal fields in some places although it's not enough for house heating. One Glacier, Drangajokull, is on the high plains in the eastern part of

the area.

Some major cities in Iceland are:

Reykjavík

Kópavogur 

Hafnarfjörður 

 Akureyri

Keflavík

Garðabær

Mosfellsbær

Akranes

Selfoss

Seltjarnarnes

Vestmannæyjar

Ísafjörður

Sauðárkrókur

Grindavík

Húsavík

Hveragerði

Álftanes

Borgarnes

Höfn

Egilsstaðir

 

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