How do you name an island?

          The consensus seems to be that you call it the first thing that comes to your mind when you first see it. Such were the cases of the North Atlantic neighbors Greenland and Iceland. A thousand years ago when the Vikings first landed on Iceland it was to them a cold and desolate rock with more ice than they were used to. When Eric the Red was deemed and outlaw for being naughty and had to flee Iceland, he sailed west and found a larger island that seemed almost tropical compared to Iceland. He called it Green Land. A thousand years later Greenland is covered with a 2-mile thick ice pack and Iceland, while not like the Bahamas, is relatively temperate. It seems that it would’ve been smarter and less confusing to have just called them Smith and Jones.

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