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Feather.


More people live
in the city of Tampa,
Florida, than
on the entire
island of Iceland.

Divers have found clams
nearly 400 years old off
the coast of this country.

Ravens are
admired here
for their
intelligence.

Fermented shark
is the national dish.

Iceland is slightly smaller
than the state of Kentucky.

The colors
in the flag
represent
natural
elements
on the island:
red for
volcanic fires,
white for ice
fields, and
blue for
the ocean.

The glowing
northern lights
(also known as
the aurora borealis)
are visible for more
than 8 months of
the year here.

An elevator
will drop you
400 feet into the
Þríhnúkagígur
(pronounced
thrih-NUHK-ah-gig-ur)
volcano, the only
place in the world
where you can
enter a magma
chamber.

Arctic foxes were
the only native land
mammals in Iceland
when it was first settled.

Appelsinusafi
means “orange juice”
in Icelandic.

The Icelandic sheepdog
is known as the “Dog of
the Vikings” because
these early explorers
brought the breed over
from Norway.

Some 800,000 sheep
live in Iceland—twice
the number of people
who live there.

Thousands of
crystal-blue ice
caves form every
winter in
Vatnajökull
National Park,
where characters
from Explorer
Academy: The
Falcon’s Feather
are virtually
transported
during a training
mission in the
CAVE (Computer
Animated Virtual
Experience).

Iceland
has no
native
reptiles or
amphibians.

Iceland’s nickname,
the Land of Fire and Ice,
refers to the island’s many
ice caps (a thick layer of ice
on land) and volcanoes.

Iceland


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