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Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean.

It has a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

The capital and largest city is Reykjavík.

Reykjavík and the surrounding areas in the southwest of the country are home to over two-thirds of the population.

Iceland is volcanically and geologically active.

The interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields, mountains and glaciers, while many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands.

Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate, despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle.

Its high latitude and marine influence still keeps summers chilly, with most of the archipelago having a tundra climate.

A glacier (or) 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.

Glaciers slowly deform and flow due to stresses induced by their weight, creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguishing features.

They also abrade rock and debris from their substrate to create landforms such as cirques and moraines.

Glaciers form only on land and are distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water.

The Snæfellsnes is a peninsula situated to the west of Borgarfjörður, in western Iceland.

It has been named Iceland in Miniature, because many national sights can be found in the area, including the Snæfellsjökull volcano, regarded as one of the symbols of Iceland.

With its height of 1446 m, it is the highest mountain on the peninsula and has a glacier at its peak (jökull means "glacier" in Icelandic).

The volcano can be seen on clear days from Reykjavík, a distance of about 120 km.

The mountain is also known as the setting of the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth by the French author Jules Verne.

The area surrounding Snæfellsjökull has been designated one of the four National Parks by the government of Iceland.

The Golden Circle (Icelandic: Gullni hringurinn) is a popular tourist route in southern Iceland, covering about looping from Reykjavík into the southern uplands of Iceland and back.

It is the area that contains most tours and travel-related activities in Iceland.

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