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		paul7986 86 days 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 86 days ago | [–]

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

throwway120385 86 days ago | [–]

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

Tistron 86 days ago | [–]

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

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