Iceland showed last week why it is indeed ice-land. This amazing photograph taken by a NASA satellite is from the Earth Science department of the University of Iceland.

The picture was taken the 9^th of December at 12.58.

The freezing temperatures last week went down to -27 in Northeast Iceland, in Mývatn. The record low temperature is for Iceland is -38, the year 1918 often dubbed the "Frosty Winter".

The image, which you can expand by clicking, shows that sea ice is stretching from the North to Iceland.

Only a few days later the temperature was above 0 again.

This truly is Iceland.

University of Iceland
NASA