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The Icelandic Esperanto Association (Esperanto: Islanda Esperanto-Asocio; Icelandic: Íslenska esperantosambandið, Esperantosamband Íslands) is one of the national associations of the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA). It was founded in 1950 and joined UEA in 1975. Its magazine is La velo (The Sail). Its president is Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson (as of November 2014). Baldur Ragnarsson presided over the association for a long time and made many translations of Icelandic literature into Esperanto.
The association has twice hosted the World Esperanto Congress: the 62nd in the summer of 1997 and the 98th in Reykjavík from July 20 to July 27, 2013.
The first national Esperanto association in Iceland, Samband íslenzkra esperantista, was founded in 1931.