Geography of Iceland

The geography of Iceland is as follows:

* * * and Iceland (Icelandic: Lveldi? The Republic of Iceland, the capital of Iceland, is located in the middle of the North Atlantic, near the Arctic Circle, and is the second largest island in Europe.

Iceland is located in the middle of the North Atlantic, between Greenland and Britain, bordering the Greenland Sea in the north, Greenland in the northwest across the Danish Strait, and the Norwegian Sea in the northeast. Near the Arctic Circle, it is the second largest island in Europe. The land area is103,000 square kilometers, and the coastline is about 4970 kilometers long. In the middle of the 9th century, Irish and Norwegians immigrated to Iceland, becoming the earliest recorded residents in Iceland's history. From 65438 to 0262, Iceland was ruled by Norway and Denmark successively. 1June, 944, the Republic of Iceland was established.

Island countries are highly developed European countries, with per capita GDP and human development index ranking first in the world and one of the most livable countries in the world. Fishery is the foundation of Iceland, and fishery and its derivative industries are the most important economic industries in Iceland. Industry is dominated by high energy-consuming industries such as aluminum smelting and aquatic product processing. Iceland attracts tourists from all over the world with its unique scenery and landforms such as volcanoes, glaciers, hot springs and aurora.

Topographic features of Iceland:

1 1.6% of Iceland is covered by glaciers, and three quarters of the country is at an altitude of 400-800 meters. The whole Iceland is a bowl-shaped highland, surrounded by coastal mountains and with a plateau in the middle. Most of them are terraced fields, and the height of terraced fields is between 400 and 800 meters. Individual peaks can reach 1300~ 1700 meters. The highest peak in Iceland is Mount Henuk (2119m). The lowland area is very small, and there are marine plains and ice water alluvial plains in the west and southwest, accounting for about 7% of the whole island area.

There are more than 100 volcanoes in Iceland, and Nuuk volcano in Huana Darce is the highest peak in China, with an altitude of 2 1 19 meters. Almost the whole country of Iceland is built on volcanic rocks, and most of the land cannot be cultivated. 1963 to 1967, the volcanic activity in the southwest coast is about 2. 1km? This island. The rocks that make up Iceland are all volcanic rocks, and the most widely distributed are basalt, andesite, rhyolite and so on.