Greetings from Iceland flag card arrives as well ..Thank you so much Rosmarie for this card...and also taking the trouble to send.. I have reciprocated for you ...so watch your mailbox.!! This is another in the "Flags of the World " card series..
Posted Reykjavik: 30 May : Arrived Sydney 10 July.: Traveled 41 days...the long way round !!!
Greetings from ICELAND : Kvedja fra Islandi.
ICELAND : covers an area of some 102,775 KM2.
POPULATION of Iceland is 332,529 inhabitants.
CAPITAL CITY is Reykjavik.
UNIQUE : The most peaceful country in the world according to the Global Peace Index.
POWER : Iceland is the worlds largest producer of electricity per capita due to the utilization of the abundant hydroelectric and geothermal power.
FAMOUS : "Geysir" in Haukadalur Valley is the oldest known geyser in the world.
PRESIDENT : Vigdis Finnbogadottir (1980 - 1996 ) was the worlds first directly female head of state.
VOLCANOES: Iceland has hundreds of Volcanoes and thirty are active systems.
HISTORY : ca. 874 Iceland was still uninhabited long after the rest of western Europe had been settled .Recorded settlement has conventially been dated back to 874.
ca.: 1000 Leif Erikson is the first known European to have discovered the North America (excluding Greenland ) five centuries before Christopher Columbus
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