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Hornstrandir attracts both half-day visitors and hikers, and has three main attractions. One attraction is the bird cliffs surrounding the bay of Hornvík, reaching a height of more than 500 metres on the bay's eastern side and described as "a magnet of gigantic proportions" for teeming of birds.
Hornstrandir and Jökulfirðir. The Jökulfirðir (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈjœːkʏlˌfɪrðɪr̥] ⓘ, "glacier fjords") form a system of five fjords in Westfjords, Iceland, situated north of Ísafjarðardjúp and south of the Hornstrandir peninsula. They are named for Drangajökull, a glacier situated to the southeast of the fjords.
Aðalvík is a bay located in the southwest part of Hornstrandir on Iceland. The bay splits into three main locations, the former fishing villages of Látrar (120 inhabitants in 1920) and Sæból (80 inhabitants in 1900) and Miðvík. All of the settlements were abandoned in the middle of the 20th century.
[68] [69] In March 2021, the helicopter rescued a BBC film crew after their boat started taking on water in the vicinity of Hlöðuvík in Hornstrandir. [70] [71] Gróa (IV) TF-GRO Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma: 2019 Present Arrived in July 2019 on long-term lease from Knut Axel Ugland Holding of Norway and replaced Syn.
Erik Thorvaldsson was born in Rogaland, Norway in 950 CE, and was the son of Thorvald Asvaldsson (also spelled Osvaldsson). [3] Thorvald would later be banished from Norway for committing acts of manslaughter. [7]
Rán, also known as TF-RÁN, was a Sikorsky S-76A helicopter that was in service with the Icelandic Coast Guard from 1980 to 1983. [1] [2] It was named after Rán, the goddess and a personification of the sea from Norse mythology, and was the second Coast Guard aircraft to bear the name.
The strait connects the Greenland Sea, an extension of the Arctic Ocean, to the Irminger Sea, a part of the Atlantic Ocean.It is 480 kilometres (300 mi) long. The narrowest part of the strait is 290 kilometres (180 mi) wide and lies between Straumnes, on Iceland's Hornstrandir peninsula, and Cape Tupinier, on Greenland's Blosseville Coast.
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