English Explanatory Dictionary

Icelandia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A sunken microcontinent located in the middle of the North Atlantic, pinned in place by the Iceland Hotspot, stretching between Greenland and Scandinavia.

Word forms

Icelandia

Etymology

Iceland + -ia. From having Iceland lie atop this microcontinent.

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