Iceland is a nation with a long and rather unique history, and it is worth noting that it has also been thoroughly mapped and examined by cartographers, explorers, and other such types over the past millennium or so. Fortunately, the Nordic Digital Library Center and the National and University Library of Iceland have joined forces to create this digital archive of all maps of Iceland from before 1900. Visitors who would like some explanation of these materials can seek out a short historical essay on the maps by author Haraldur Sigurosson. The maps themselves are divided up chronologically, headed by explanatory titles, such as “The first maps of Iceland” and “The coastal survey of 1776-1777”. Each map is accompanied by a short passage of text that explains the origins of each map, along with offering information about how each map fits into an emerging sensibility of Iceland’s location in relation to other landforms. Finally, the site is available in both Icelandic and English.