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Ólafsvík
Ólafsvík is a small town in Iceland on the northern side of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula.
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Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.
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Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss
Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss (Old Norse pronunciation: ˈbɒːrðar saɣa ˈsnæːˌfɛlːsˌɒːsː) or Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss ok Gests is a late saga of the Icelanders with legendary elements.
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BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.
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Church (building)
A church building or church house, often simply called a church, is a building used for Christian religious activities, particularly for worship services.
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Explosive eruption
In volcanology, an explosive eruption is a volcanic eruption of the most violent type.
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Faxa Bay
Faxa Bay (sometimes Faxe Bay or Faxi Bay, Faxaflói), is a bay in southwest Iceland, between the peninsulas of Snæfellsnes and Reykjanes.
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Fell
A fell (from Old Norse fell, fjall, "mountain"Falk and Torp (2006:161).) is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain range or moor-covered hills.
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Felsic
In geology, felsic refers to igneous rocks that are relatively rich in elements that form feldspar and quartz.
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Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.
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Geography of Iceland
Iceland is an island country at the confluence of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, east of Greenland and immediately south of the Arctic Circle, atop the constructive boundary of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge about from Scotland and from New York City.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
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Halldór Laxness
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer.
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Hellissandur
Hellissandur is a village and part of the Snæfellsbær municipality at the northwestern tip of Snæfellsnes peninsula in western Iceland.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.
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Iceland plume
The Iceland plume is a postulated upwelling of anomalously hot rock in the Earth's mantle beneath Iceland.
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Intermediate composition
In igneous petrology an intermediate composition refers to the chemical composition of a rock that has 52-63 wt% SiO2 being an intermediate between felsic and mafic compositions.
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Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician, actor and presenter.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Voyage au centre de la Terre, also translated under the titles A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne.
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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Lava
Lava is molten rock generated by geothermal energy and expelled through fractures in planetary crust or in an eruption, usually at temperatures from.
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Lóndrangar
The Lóndrangar are a pair of rock pinnacles in Iceland.
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List of glaciers of Iceland
The glaciers and ice caps of Iceland cover 11.1% of the land area of the country (about 11,400 km² out of the total area of 103,125 km²) and have a considerable impact on its landscape and meteorology.
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List of islands of Iceland
This is a list of islands of Iceland.
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List of lakes of Iceland
This is a list of lakes of Iceland (partially indicating surface, depth and volume).
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List of national parks of Iceland
Since 2008, Iceland has three national parks.
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List of rivers of Iceland
On an island like Iceland, no rivers are very long.
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List of volcanoes in Iceland
This list of volcanoes in Iceland includes 130 active and extinct volcanic mountains, of which 18 have erupted since human settlement of Iceland began circa 900 CE.
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List of waterfalls of Iceland
Iceland is unusually suited for waterfalls.
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Longwave radio mast Hellissandur
The Hellissandur longwave radio mast is a 412-metre-high guyed radio mast used for longwave radio transmissions and situated at Gufuskálar, near Hellissandur on the Snæfellsnes peninsula of Iceland.
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Ludvík Souček
Ludvík Souček (17 May 1926 - 26 December 1978 in Prague) was probably the best-known author of science fiction in Czechoslovakia.
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Meditation
Meditation can be defined as a practice where an individual uses a technique, such as focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity, to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.
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Monk
A monk (from μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin monachus) is a person who practices religious asceticism by monastic living, either alone or with any number of other monks.
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Moss
Mosses are small flowerless plants that typically grow in dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").
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Palagonite
Palagonite is an alteration product from the interaction of water with volcanic glass of chemical composition similar to basalt.
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Prayer
Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship, typically a deity, through deliberate communication.
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Recorded history
Recorded history or written history is a historical narrative based on a written record or other documented communication.
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Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland.
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Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.
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Sea
A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land.
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Snæfellsnes
The Snæfellsnes is a peninsula situated to the west of Borgarfjörður, in western Iceland.
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Stratovolcano
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice and ash.
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Types of volcanic eruptions
Several types of volcanic eruptions—during which lava, tephra (ash, lapilli, volcanic bombs and volcanic blocks), and assorted gases are expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure—have been distinguished by volcanologists.
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Volcanic cone
Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcanic landforms.
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Volcanic crater
A volcanic crater is a roughly circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity.
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Volcanology of Iceland
The volcanoes of Iceland include a high concentration of active ones due to Iceland's location on the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary, and its location over a hot spot.
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World population
In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living, and was estimated to have reached 7.6 billion people as of May 2018.
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1864 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1864.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snæfellsjökull
