Ófeigsfjörður
| Ófeigsfjörður | ||
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| Waters | Greenland Sea | |
| Land mass | Iceland | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 3 '44 " N , 21 ° 41' 30" W | |
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| width | 2.5 km | |
| depth | 2 km | |
| Tributaries | Húsá, Hvalá | |
Ófeigsfjörður is a bay in the Westfjords of Iceland .
It got its name from the landlord Ófeigur Herröðarson. His brother Ingólf settled south and Eyvindur north in fjords, which they named after themselves. The bay is about 2.5 km wide. Its south-east coast extends 2 km into the country, but the north-west coast only 500 m. Two larger rivers flow into the Ófeigsfjörður, the Húsá and the Hvalá with the Rjúkandafoss in its tributary Rjúkandi and the Hvalárfoss . The first waterfall was used by sailors in the Húnaflói as a clearly visible landmark. The Ófeigsfjarðarvegur highland road (road F649) from neighboring Ingólfsfjörður ends at the second . No road leads further north on the east side of the Westfjords.
Shark fishing was done with the boat Ófeigur until 1915. It is now in the local history museum in Reykir in Hrútafjörður . Eiderdown , seal hunting and driftwood were other sources of income in the fjord, which is now uninhabited except for summer houses. The Hvalá river is the richest in water in the Westfjords. One thinks about a power plant.
The scholar Jón Guðmundsson was born here in 1574.
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- ↑ Ófeigsfjörður. Retrieved April 9, 2019 (Icelandic).