Background: Iceland's Highway 1 was completed in 1974 and is roughly 830 miles long.
How It's Unique: Highway 1 is better known as the Ring Road, because it forms a giant loop that circles the whole of Iceland. Much of the road has only one lane heading in each direction as it dices through fjords, cuts across the country's sub-Arctic desert and curves along the Atlantic coastline. The Ring Road is especially tourist-friendly, hitting most of the major Icelandic landmarks, though drivers should be prepared for unpaved stretches and antiquated bridges.
Excerpt from http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/architecture/4338387
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