From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > In order eastward from Canada: Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden,   
   > Finland, Russia, US.  To my shame, I got this one wrong myself in   
   > the original game, missing Alaska.  I was surprised that Erland   
   > explicitly listed the countries to justify his answer of 6, but   
   > missed Iceland, so I checked.  It turns out that the main island   
   > of Iceland is entirely south of the Arctic Circle, but Iceland   
   > still makes the list because of a small island named Grímsey.   
   > (However, if Wikipedia is correct, in a few decades the Arctic   
   > Circle will have shifted enough to change this.)   
   >   
      
   Oh, what a complete brain fart of mine! Iceland simply fell out   
   of my mind. But had been woken up the middle of the night, and   
   been asked if Iceland crosses the Arctic circle, I would have   
   said yes. Not because I know of Grimsey, but because I would   
   have assumed that the main island crosses the Artcic Circle.   
      
   Anyway, I was confused over my answer, because I am quite sure   
   that the Artcic Council has eight members. But I seemed to recall   
   that there is one member who is included despite not being close   
   to the Artcic Circle. I guess that's Denmark.   
      
   Out of curiosity, I checked my atlas, and the distance from the   
   northernmost tip of the main island to the Arctic Circle seems   
   to be at most one km.   
      
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