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fun facts about iceland population: ~260,000, 65% in Reykjavik (Boston proper: ~595,000) area: approximately size of (uk – scotland) less than 1/3 of land inhabitable national language: icelandic, a form of ancient norwegian. carefully protected by government largely unchanged for past 1500 years ancient name system still in use economics: pre-1960, iceland was largely considered a 3rd world country since then, geothermal energy allowed country to grow largely self-subsistent today: geothermal energy used for nearly everything now transitioning to hydrogen-based vehicles Iceland is located on the mid-atlantic ridge, at the intersection of America and Eurasia fastest “growing” country in the world, tectonic plates spreading at 2+cm/year. the 24-hr canyon: Iceland is located on the mid-atlantic ridge, at the intersection of America and Eurasia The canyon at Gullfoss is believed byover geologists 100 volcanoes in Iceland to have been created over a period of 24 hours 10 “extremely active”, last major eruption in 2001 by a glacier exploding the land of Bjork: Bjork performed a concert here in an ancient volcanic crater