Iceland

Greenland is part of the continent of North America. Britain and Ireland are part of the continent of Europe. (With the Channel Tunnel this is finally becoming conceptually true as well.) So, stuck in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, where is Iceland?

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It's a strange island, isn't it? Much of the interior is only accessible for two or three months every year and twenty percent of it is covered by permanent ice cap. Its features match its icy name. Nevertheless it is dotted with numerous hot springs and lava flows.

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Those heat sources are telling. Iceland has been formed entirely by hot magma, i.e. volcanic flows. In fact Iceland is that great anomaly in the world, belonging neither to North America nor to Europe, but representing the effloresence resulting from a gap between the two. So in the list of continents Iceland can proudly file itself alone under the column "None of the Above".
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