This island that gained independence from Denmark in 1944 is below the Arctic Circle
He discovered that the country was an island and called it 
Gararshlmi .... Areas near the Arctic Circle such as Iceland and Greenland 
began to have... [DOC] [TLE] Iceland - Wikipedia [PAR] The Republic of Iceland Lveldi sland in Icelandic, is a Nordic island country 
in the North .... Iceland formally became a republic on 17 June 1944, with Sveinn 
Bjrnsson as its first ...