Hesteyrarfjörður
| Hesteyrarfjörður | ||
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 Old whaling station at Stekkeyri |
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| Waters | Ísafjarðardjúp , Greenland Sea | |
| Land mass | Iceland | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 19 '33 " N , 22 ° 51' 26" W | |
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| width | 2 km | |
| depth | 7 km | |
| Tributaries | Fjarðará | |
The Hesteyrarfjörður is a fjord in the Westfjords in northwest Iceland .
It is the westernmost of the Jökulfirðir , a group of five fjords on the north bank of the Ísafjarðardjúp . The fjord is 2 km wide and 7 km into the country. On its west bank is the abandoned town of Hesteyri , which used to have around 80 inhabitants who lived mainly from fishing. After herring ran out in the 1940s , the population declined until the last permanent residents left the place in 1952. Today there are no longer any permanently inhabited houses at Hesteyrarfjörður, which is not accessible by roads or slopes, as is the case with the other four Jökulfirðir.
North of Hesteyri, Norwegians operated a whaling station deeper in the fjord near Stekkeyri from 1894 to 1915 . After Iceland issued a ten-year whaling ban, the station was converted into a herring factory.
Web links
- www.vestfridir.is ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) ( isl .)