The cleverly designed houses, known as "torfbæir", helped to populate one of the least inhospitable environments in Europe.
With its lonely lava fields, sheer cliffs and steep boulder-strewn plains, Iceland is one of the most barren countries in Europe. Over much of the island, its utter remoteness is striking, especially in the far northwest region, where the Icelanders have managed to populate one of the least hospitable and most volcanically active places on Earth.
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