Maybe it is England. It seems there are always stories about new finds there. It’s so common that there are even frequent Brit murder mysteries involving odd finds.
It could easily be Iceland, because it so sparsely pop’d.
CIA World factbook:
Iceland:
land: 100,250 sq km, pop. 357,603 (2022 est.)
England (actually, UK):
land: 241,930 sq km England 53% of that, pop. 67,791,400 (2022 est.) England 84.3%
Italy:
land: 294,140 sq km, pop. 61,095,551 (2022 est.)