Hvalbakur
| Hvalbakur | ||
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| Waters | Atlantic Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 35 '45 " N , 13 ° 16' 30" W | |
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| length | 205 m | |
| width | 95 m | |
| surface | 1 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 5 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Skerry Hvalbakur , rare Hvalsbakur , is the easternmost point of the State Iceland .
It is located 35 kilometers off the coast and almost 50 kilometers east of Djúpivogur . Literally translated it means "whale back". It is 200 meters long and up to 100 meters wide, but only five meters high.
Hvalbakur as well as the northern sandbank Faerabakur are considered candidates for a sighting by the Dutch navigator and cartographer Joris Carolus in 1617, which he called Opdams Island. Since the latitude he specified with 66 ° N runs about one and a half latitudes north and there is no land there, it found its way into contemporary maps as a phantom island , now under the name Enchuysen , for a period of almost a century and a half .
Individual evidence
- ^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency : Sailing Directions (Enroute), Greenland and Iceland. Twelfth edition, 2014, Springfield, Virginia, S. 182. digitized , PDF, 6.4MB, accessed on 20 September 2015 (English)
- ^ Halldór Hermannsson: Jón Guðmundsson and his Natural History of Iceland. Islandica, published by Cornell University , Ithaca, Vol.XV (1924), p. 33. Digitized at Google Books USA, directly to the side ; currently only accessible via proxy. (English)