The first settler who made his home in Iceland, where Reykjavik now stands was a Norwegian Viking, Ingolfur Arnarson, around 874 AD.
Iceland is a geologically young land. It's location places Iceland in geologically very active part of North Atlantic Ocean. For that reason Iceland has numerous volcanoes and geysers.
11% of the Iceland is covered by glaciers.
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