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The capital and chief port of Iceland on the southwestern coast of Iceland
Answer for the clue "The capital and chief port of Iceland on the southwestern coast of Iceland ", 9 letters:
reykjavik
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Word definitions for reykjavik in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
capital of Iceland, literally "bay of smoke," from Old Norse reykja "to smoke" (see reek (n.)) + vik "bay" (see viking ). So called from the natural hot springs there. Settlement said to date from 9c., but not established as a town until 1786.\n\n
Usage examples of reykjavik.
Confirm the one-regiment Backfire raid downbound, over Reykjavik right now, estimated course one-eight-zero.
A hundred miles behind them, the two F-15s kept on point defense over Reykjavik had just been topped off from an orbiting tanker and were charging northeast at a thousand knots while the remainder of the squadron was even now leaving the ground.
Forty-eight hours later, after a storm which drove us far to sea under bare poles, we came once more in sight of land, and were boarded by a pilot, who, after three hours of dangerous navigation, brought the schooner safely to an anchor in the bay of Faxa before Reykjavik.
When Pitt wakes up after being wounded and brought to Reykjavik, she is wearing a red wool dress that clings to her precision-shaped hourglass figure.
As soon as you got Hunnewell here to Reykjavik, I was going to put you on the next flight back to California.
Studying marine engineering in Reykjavik, sometimes I felt naked without a smock.
The Murrin ship was bright yellow, twice as long as the Reykjavik, and bulked at least five times the mass.