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Fire and Ice, Garden and Desert, Industry and Farming, Communism and Capitalism... Iceland is a land of apparent opposites, melded together in nature and culture. Iceland is home to the world's third largest glacier. In truth, all the "largest glaciers" - Antarctica, Greenland and Iceland's Vatnajokull (above) - are really icecaps. The glaciers are the flowing outlets from these huge oceans of ice.