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  2. Jökulsárlón - Wikipedia

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    The first settlers arrived in Iceland around AD 870, when the edge of the tongue of Breiðamerkurjökull glacier was about 20 km (12 mi) further north of its present location. During the Little Ice Age between 1600 and 1900, with lower temperatures prevailing in these latitudes, the glacier had grown by up to about 1 km (0.62 mi) from the coast ...

  3. Breiðamerkursandur - Wikipedia

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    [1] The pro glacial lake Jökulsárlón, one of Iceland's best-known tourist attractions, is located on Breiðamerkursandur. The glaciers that formed the sandur are a part of Vatnajökull, and therefore a part of Vatnajökull National Park. In 2017, the borders of the park were changed to include also the plain itself and the Jökulsárlón ...

  4. Names of Iceland - Wikipedia

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    Fjalladrottning [ˈfjatlaˌtrɔhtniŋk], fem. – queen of the mountain or Iceland [citation needed] Fjallkonan [ˈfjatl̥ˌkɔːnan], fem. with definite article—lady of the mountain, a figure representing Iceland [citation needed] Frón Icelandic pronunciation:, neu. – old Norse word for land, Iceland [citation needed] Heima á Fróni.

  5. Icelandic phonology - Wikipedia

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    Among Iceland's dialects, this feature is the most common surviving deviation from the standard dialect. Furthermore, in Þingeyjarsýsla and northeast Iceland, the sequences mp nt nk lp lk ðk within a morpheme before a vowel may retain a voiced pronunciation of their first consonant and a postaspirated pronunciation of their second consonant ...

  6. Iceland - Wikipedia

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    Iceland's stock market, the Iceland Stock Exchange (ISE), was established in 1985. [147] Iceland is ranked 27th in the 2012 Index of Economic Freedom, lower than in prior years but still among the freest in the world. [148] As of 2016, it ranks 29th in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitive Index, one place lower than in 2015. [149]

  7. File:Jokulsarlon lake, Iceland.jpg - Wikipedia

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  8. Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/An iceberg in Jokulsarlon

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    This one got to there probably by water and then I guess it just drifted to the shore before it reached the ocean (there's a small river between jokulsarlon and the ocean which can be seen in the picture behind the iceberg)--Someone35 (talk) 17:14, 10 September 2011 (UTC) It would be more encyclopedic if in the water.

  9. Icelandic language - Wikipedia

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    Icelandic (/ aɪ s ˈ l æ n d ɪ k / ⓘ eyess-LAN-dik; endonym: íslenska, pronounced [ˈistlɛnska] ⓘ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language. [2]