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Icelandia

Icelandia proper noun: a sunken microcontinent located in the middle of the North Atlantic, pinned in place by the Iceland Hotspot, stretching between Greenland and Scandinavia.

Proper noun

Icelandia

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

Origin of Icelandia

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

Questions about Icelandia

What does Icelandia mean?
Icelandia means a sunken microcontinent located in the middle of the North Atlantic, pinned in place by the Iceland Hotspot, stretching between Greenland and Scandinavia.
What part of speech is Icelandia?
Icelandia is a proper noun.

Words near Icelandia in the dictionary

  1. Iceland poppy
  2. Iceland spar
  3. Iceland spars
  4. Icelander
  5. Icelanders
  6. Icelandia
  7. Icelandian
  8. Icelandians
  9. Icelandic
  10. Icelandic cyprine
  11. Icelandic cyprines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Icelandia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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