Iceland land of fire

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Iceland
land of fire ice
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Modern Iceland

• todays modern vikings are laying the fondation,
  iceland has evolved from fishing straight to
  national indepandance.
• statisticly Iceland is the highest in hospital
  beds, doctors degrees ice land is already working
  on ways of making cars have less pollutionby
  using hydrogen it also supports future
  investments.
• Iceland also supports investments in other
  cuontrys, making it second richest in scandanavia

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Famous people

• Halldore kiljan laxness using the people of
  Iceland as his subject halldore kiljan laxness
  became one of the most important Iceland authors,
  for works such as sjalfstoett (independent
  people) he was awarded the nobel prize for
  literature in 1995
• Ingolfer anaarson ingolfer was the first person
  to settle in iceland in 1874. belived to be a
  norwegion chiefton, ingolfer, upon arriving in
  iceland established a farm located within the
  boundaries of reykjavik the present capitol.
• Vigdis fimbagdo vigdis served 4 terms as
  president in 1980-96

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did you know

• Ice land is the land of fire and ice
• Population is 298,737
• Life expectancy 79(male) 83(female)
• Infant mortality rate 3 per 1000

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Iceland flag
the iceland flag was supposedly deprived from the
british flag
the red stands for fire
the white stands for ice
the blue stands for icelands mountains
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The guysers

• The geyser basin here takes on the name of the
  largest geyser here, Geyser. In fact that leads
  to some confusion on many web sites and on the
  part of some visitors. The Basin is Geyser but
  until recently Geyser itself was dormant and even
  now has relatively small eruptions. The large
  active geyser in the Basin is Strokkur. The name
  confusion does lead some to believe, as was the
  case of a geologist, that they have seen a 60 to
  90 foot  eruption of Geyser when instead they
  have seen the mighty Strokkur.

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economy

• Aluminum
• Alcan's aluminum plant in Straumsvík, Iceland
• Aluminum smelting is the most important
  power-intensive industry in Iceland. There are
  currently two plants in operation, with one under
  construction and two in the planning stage.
• Alcan owns a plant in Straumsvík near the town of
  Hafnarfjörður which has been in operation since
  1969. Its initial capacity was 33,000 metric tons
  per year but has since been expanded several
  times and now has a capacity of 180,000 mtpy.
  Alcan is studying the feasibility of expanding
  the plant to a capacity of 460,000 mtpy
  negotiations are already underway with the power
  companies Landsvirkjun (the national power
  company) and Orkuveita Reykjavíkur, although it
  is yet unclear if the municipality of
  Hafnarfjörður will allow such an expansion, but
  the inhibitants of Hafnafjörður are going to vote
  whether they want to expand the aluminum smelting
  or not.

                                                  
                            
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Icelands volcano

• Laki (Icelandic Lakagígar) is a volcanic
  fissure situated in the south of Iceland
• In AD 934, the Laki system produced a very large
  volcanic eruption, as a flood basalt in the
  Eldgjá eruption, which released 19.6 km³ (4.7
  mi³) of lava. In 1783-1784, the system erupted
  again, from the Laki fissure and the adjoining
  Grímsvötn volcano, spewing 15 km³ (3.6 mi³) of
  basalt lava and clouds of poisonous
  fluorine/sulfur-dioxide compounds that killed
  over 50 of livestock, leading to famine killing
  25-33 of the population.
• On 8 June 1783, a fissure with 130 craters opened
  explosively at first because of the groundwater
  interacting with the rising basalt magma. Over
  time, the eruptions became less explosive, with
  the style changing from Plinian to Strombolian,
  and later to Hawaiian with high rates of lava
  effusion. This event is rated as VEI 4 on the
  Volcanic Explosivity Index, but the eight month
  emission of sulphuric aerosols resulted in one of
  the most important climatic and socially
  repercussive events of the last millennium

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Icelands lakes

• The Grímsvötn (Icelandic vatn, or "lake") are
  lakes in Iceland. They lie in the highlands of
  Iceland at the northwestern side of the
  Vatnajökull glacier and are covered by its ice
  cap. Beneath them is a large magma chamber of a
  powerful volcano. The location of the lakes is
  6425'N 1720'W, at an elevation of 1,725 m
  (5,659 ft).
• Grímsvötn has a southwest-northeast-trending
  fissure system, and the massive, climatic
  impacting, Laki fissure eruption of 1783-1784 was
  a part of the same fissure system. In fact,
  Grímsvötn was erupting at the same time as Laki
  during 1783, but continued to erupt until 1785.
  Because most of the volcano lies underneath
  Vatnajökull, most eruptions have been subglacial
  in nature.

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Credits

• http//www.icetourist.is/displayer.asp?cat_id710
  
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrC3ADmsvC3B6tn
• http//culturegrams.com/Iceland