Synonyms:
Iceland, Republic_of_Iceland
Meaning: an island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944
Synonyms:
Iceland
Meaning: a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle
Usage examples
"Horizontally, three hundred and fifty leagues from Iceland."
It is called surturbrand, a variety of brown coal or lignite, found chiefly in Iceland."
They were to be found everywhere through Europe, even as far as Iceland and the Faroe and Shetland Islands.
The horrible disease of leprosy is too common in Iceland; it is not contagious, but hereditary, and lepers are forbidden to marry.
"Yes; we are only thirty-five leagues from it; and during thaws the white bears, borne by the ice fields from the north, are carried even into Iceland.
Still I had one hope left, and this was, that when we had reached the bottom of the crater it would be impossible, for want of a passage, to go deeper, in spite of all the Saknussemm's in Iceland.
As a true nephew of the Professor Liedenbrock, and in spite of my dismal prospects, I could not help observing with interest the mineralogical curiosities which lay about me as in a vast museum, and I constructed for myself a complete geological account of Iceland.