Iceland Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean
About Iceland
Iceland is an island nation in the North Atlantic Ocean. Iceland is one of theNordic countries, and therefore culturally part ofEurope. Because it is so close to theArcticCircle, the amount of daylight varies dramatically by season. The sunsets brieflyeach night in June, but it doesn't get fully dark before it comes back up again. It is a beautiful sight and one definitely not to be missed, but it can make it hard to sleep. It is easy to lose track of time when the sun is still high in the sky at 23:00 (the time zone amplifies this: wall clock time is 1–1½ hr ahead of sun time). In the March and September equinoxes, days and nights are of about equal length, as elsewhere in the world. If you go in December, it's almost 20 hours of darkness. Summer is definitely the best time to go, even th
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