Word: icelandic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit unnoticed, the news that Parker ("Shorty") Cramer was the pilot was a sure clue to the flight's objective. Since immediately after the War. Pilot Cramer, onetime flying partner of Sir George Hubert Wilkins, had been arguing for a subarctic air route to Europe via Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark. Twice he attempted a trailblazer, twice failed: once with Pilot Bert Hassell in 1928; the following year in the Chicago Tribune's Sikorsky amphibian 'Untin' Bowler, which was broken by floating ice and sunk in the Hudson Strait. "Shorty" Cramer continued to preach the feasibility...
Japan, the Malay Archipelago and South America have geyser regions. But they do not compare in number or size to those of Iceland, New Zealand or Yellowstone. Yellowstone's are the biggest and best to look...
Fifty times as big as Denmark is Denmark's only colony, Greenland. (Iceland is an independent kingdom that merely happens to have the same King as Den-mark.) In recent warm summers parties of Norwegian hunters have made frequent trips to East Greenland, built little shack settlements there. The Danish-Norwegian problem first boiled over more than a month ago when a semi-official Norwegian body known as the Arctic Council suddenly announced that Denmark was about to send an expedition to explore East Greenland, sounded an alarm that the time had come for Norway to stake and beflag...
...Graf Zeppelin flew from Friedrichshafen to Iceland and back as practice for its Arctic cruise late this month...
...collection which bears Professor Schofield's name was the largest private library in Iceland, and was purchased directly from its former owner, Kristjan Kristjansson, a merchant of Reykjavik, who had spent many years gathering it. It contains works both of mediaeval and of modern literature but is particularly rich in the modern field...