FACTS ON ICELAND

• In the city of Reykjavik you can see the stars 18 hours a day during winter.
• during the summer sunlight is visible 24 hours a day.
• Late in the 10th century Icelanders colonized Greenland.
• Early in the 11th century, according to one tradition Leif Ericson, the Icelandic explorer, reached the mainland of North America (Vinland), although attempts at settlement there were frustrated.
• Iceland's president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, the world's first popularly elected female head of state, was first elected in the 1980s. She began her fourth term of office in.
• Iceland has more than 100 volcanoes.
• Most of Icelands energy is produced by Hydroelectrics.
• All of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland is heated by udergriund hot springs.
• One fifth of the earths lava flow occurs in Iceland
• Almost 40% of Icelands energy is geothermal
• Bjor is Icelandic for Beer!
• Icelandic phone books contain peoples occupations aswell as their name, this is becuase so many people have the same name.
• Icelanders consume more Coca Cola per Capita than any other Nation