Hestfjörður
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 Hestfjörður. View inland. |
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| Waters | Ísafjarðardjúp | |
| Land mass | Iceland | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 57 ′ N , 22 ° 55 ′ W | |
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| width | 1.5 km | |
| length | 12 km | |
 The rock of Hestur from the island of Vigur . |
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The Hestfjörður is a fjord in the Westfjords of Iceland .
The fjord is only 1.5 kilometers wide but extends 12 kilometers into the country and there are neither villages nor individual farms on its banks. An 8 km long and up to 2 km wide peninsula separates it to the west from Seyðisfjörður . On this headland rises the 536 m high mountain Hestur ( Icelandic horse ), which gave the fjord its name. There is no road to this peninsula. In Ísafjarðardjúp in front of Hestfjörður lies the island of Vigur . In Hestfjörður, Iceland's first factory for processing shrimp was built in 1927 .
The Djúpvegur 
was the last to be connected in Hestfjörður. Before that, the Súðvíkurvegur reached from Ísafjörður to Seyðisfjörður. The Djúpvegur from the east ended in Skötufjörður . The Djúpvegur circles the fjord for about 15 kilometers, with the beginning and end barely 1.5 km apart as the crow flies. There are considerations to lead the road on a water-permeable dam across the fjord. The fjord is barely 15 m deep in the area and no large rivers flow into it.
Hestfjorður towards Ísafjarðardjúp. In the background the rock Hestur .
The Hestur rock from the front.
Web links
- Planning the road (isl.)