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		paul7986 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first tim... Iceland per my visits isn't frigid on average 20 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit in January. In it's capital at least. Overall im surprised they called it IceLand vs. WindLand. The wind is fierce.

kulahan 5 months ago | [–]

There's a (probably apocryphal) story that it was done for advertising reasons. Someone wanted people to sell land.

throwway120385 5 months ago | [–]

On old enough maps, I thought it was sometimes spelled Island not Iceland.

Tistron 5 months ago | [–]

Yeah, is-land means ice-land in Scandinavian languages.

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