Iceland is halfway on the Eurasian Plate, and halfway on the North American Plate. In my youth, my dad had taught me how Greenland and Iceland were colonized by "Vikings who deliberately switched the correct names to attract settlers." Since then, I had assumed Iceland was part of the Americas, with the whole colonizing thing and all. Gradually, I lumped it and Greenland into Europe. However, Greenland is in the Americas, but Iceland isn't. Was this decided during WWII when Iceland became independent and wanted to be involved with Europe?