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Fast Facts:

The first authenticated European settlement in the New World was founded by Icelanders in the year 1000 at L’Anse Aux Meadows in Labrador Canada.

The first European child born in North America was of an Icelandic Viking family.

At one point in history Iceland was known as Snowland.

Iceland's Halldor Laxness won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955

Iceland's men's handball team won the Silver medal in the 2008 Winter Olympics.

All Icelanders are listed in one telephone book and they're all listed by first name!

Contrary to its name, Iceland's coastal summer temperatures are quite warm (low 70's f); coastal winters resemble Chicago's.

Iceland boasts the world's northernmost golf course, located in Akureyri on the Arctic Circle.

Christopher Columbus visited Iceland on at least one occasion in the 1480's.