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Icelandic horses descend from ponies brought by Norse settlers more than 1,000 years ago. Today no horse may be imported into Iceland, and one that leaves can never come back. Many can do an extra-smooth gait called the tölt.
📍 Eastern North America
Britain's grey squirrels are American: the species is native to eastern North America and was released on British estates from the 1870s. It has since displaced most of Britain's native red squirrels.
📍 California, USA
Despite its name, the Bengal cat was created in the United States: breeder Jean Mill crossed a wild Asian leopard cat with a house cat in 1963 and founded the breed in California in the 1980s. 'Bengal' comes from the leopard cat's scientific name.
📍 Apolda, Thuringia, Germany
The Dobermann was first bred around 1890 in Apolda, in central Germany, by Louis Dobermann, a tax collector who also ran a dog pound. With dogs of many breeds at hand, he set out to create the ideal dog to protect him.
📍 Valencia (Albufera lagoon), Spain
Paella is named after its pan: in Valencian, paella simply means 'frying pan'. The dish grew up among rice farmers around the Albufera lagoon near Valencia, and the classic version uses rabbit, chicken and beans rather than seafood.
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📍 London, UK
The world's first underground railway opened in London on 10 January 1863, between Paddington and Farringdon. Steam locomotives pulled gas-lit wooden carriages through the tunnels, and 38,000 people rode it on the first day.
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📍 Buttevant & Doneraile, County Cork, Ireland
The first steeplechase is said to have been a bet in 1752: two riders raced about 6 km across country in County Cork, Ireland, from the church steeple of Buttevant to the one in Doneraile, jumping walls and ditches on the way. The steeples gave the race its name.