Iceland

(noun.) a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle.

(noun.) an island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944.

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• The Great Geyser and the New Geyser are the most remarkable ones in Iceland, where there are about a hundred altogether. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• By the thirteenth century the Hansa merchants were already sailing regularly from Bergen across the grey cold seas to the Northmen in Iceland. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Neither the Danish kingdom (which at that time included Norway and Iceland) nor the Swedes secured very much in the scramble. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Hall next experimented with lava f rom Vesuvius, Etna, Iceland, and elsewhere, and found that it behaved like whinstone. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In the tenth and eleventh centuries many of their sagas began to be written down in Iceland. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In 1819 he had announced that the plane of po lari zed light--for example, a ray passed through Iceland spar--is deflected to right or left by various chem ical substances. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Geysers were first observed in Iceland and the name, therefore, comes from that language, being derived from the word geysa, meaning to gush or rush forth. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The air was now dark with snow; an Iceland blast was driving it wildly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The method was also known to the old Celts, as shown by specimens found in Iceland. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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