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Keflavík

Keflavík is a town on the Reykjanes peninsula in south-western Iceland, now part of the municipality of Reykjanesbær. Its airport, Iceland's main international gateway, began as a US military airfield in the Second World War. Under a defence agreement of 1951 the United States ran a naval air station there for Iceland, a NATO member without an army, until the base closed in 2006.

Keflavík
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Republic of Iceland

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Keflavík. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/keflavik
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