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Iceland is well endowed with water and (geotermic) power. It's not had a war ever since its discovery by disgruntled vikings in the Middle Ages - though has had its share of diplomatic and commercial conflicts with her maritime neighbours in regards to fishing areas and possession of islets such as Rockall. It also has a very small population.Regarding "safety from natural disasters": Earthquakes are really, really rare over there, forest fires tend not to expand too much or too fast - but famines can and do have happened due to bad harvests or a reduction in fisheries (whatever the cause). Also, volcanism is a dormant killer: the Laki eruption killed slightly more than 25% of the island's population, which just recovered the levels it had 230 years ago.Of course, that tiny island cannot sustain too much humans. The carriage capacity might be around 2 million using extensive greenhouses to cultivate all that food. Probably half a million more, if all that codfish were to be used as food instead of exports, and you don't mind massive food imports no matter how much they destabilize the economy.But then, Icelanders are proud of their country, their language (hasn't changed very much in the last 1K years, as opposed to the other Scandinavian languages) and even their pedigree (most are capable of reciting their whole ancestry up to viking landings from specific ships) and wouldn't like their island being used to house people from who knows where speaking something else. Of course, they couldn't do much except to complain given the lack of an army/navy, more so since Denmark officially let them go a while ago.There's no other region that's easily available by now. By definition, whenever technology allows humans to use some preveiously unexploited resources they RUSH to grab them, rather than reserving some for future use. Even if it means war with other would-be users. Even if it's already occupied, which usually means original population gets masacred, enslaved or expelled. The last available big land with moderate amounts of space, water and power was Australia - and look at what the Britons did to the natives. British, Spanish and Portuguese did exactly the same in the Americas in the XVth century: expanding at the expense of the natives, whose technological level didn't allow them to exploit the resources to the level Europeans could.If a huge number of international treaties were to be put aside, probably Anctartica could be turned into an international heaven for refugees at an enormous initial cost... but most probably the waving of such treaties would just start a land grabbing race between major powers in order to get access to the oil, uranium and rare-earth deposits over there.The other big space that could be potentially turned into a temporary refugee heaven for millions of people would be US and Canada's central prairies: enormous spaces, not too much people, easy to provide power and water. But I emphasize the "temporary", for European ways of life are not sustainable there in the long run - which has led to the depletion of non-renewable acquifers, the degradation of the land, reduced agricultural yields and finally the abandonment of whole towns. Slowly but surely, that land is reverting to its original state of wild grass roamed over by bisons and other big ruminants... there's even a proposal by some American scientists to just force the process to go faster, in a controlled way.