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    66°23′N 22°30′W / 66.383°N 22.500°W / 66.383; -22.500 Hornstrandir (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈhɔ(r)tn̥ˌstrandɪr̥]) is Iceland's northernmost peninsula...
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    290 kilometres (180 mi) wide and lies between Straumnes, on Iceland's Hornstrandir peninsula, and Cape Tupinier, on Greenland's Blosseville Coast. According...
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    10-year-old Erik. Thorvald and his family would eventually settle in Hornstrandir in northwestern Iceland, where Thorvald would eventually die sometime...
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  • pronunciation: [ˈfljouːtaˌviːk]) is a wide bay in the far north-west of Hornstrandir, in the Westfjords region in Iceland. It is a part of the nature reserve...
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    Westfjords, and many people were banished to the nearby peninsula of Hornstrandir, now a national nature reserve. The town of Ísafjörður was granted municipal...
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    Latrar Air Station, the Ísafjarðardjúp fjord, the Jökulfirðir fjords, the Hornstrandir nature reserve and the Denmark Strait. The surroundings of Bolungarvík...
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    large Arctic Fox population. The density of Arctic Fox in some parts of Hornstrandir nature reserve (such as Hornvik) is the highest in the world. In addition...
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    the northernmost glacier of Iceland. It is situated southwest of the Hornstrandir peninsula in the Westfjords region. The glacier covers an area of 160–200 km2...
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    Westfjords, Iceland, situated north of Ísafjarðardjúp and south of the Hornstrandir peninsula. They are named for Drangajökull, a glacier situated to the...
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    the ecoregion is officially protected. These protected areas include: Hornstrandir Nature Reserve Jökulsárgljúfur National Park (now part of Vatnajökull)...
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    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...
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  • (16 March 2021). "Myndband: Landhelgisgæslan bjargar tökuliði BBC við Hornstrandir". Fréttablaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 22 June 2022. Eiður Þór Árnason...
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    ) is a short and small fjord in the Westfjords of Iceland, on the Hornstrandir peninsula. The only farm in the valley is now desolated. Margrét Katrín...
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    Ester Rut originally started studying the Arctic fox together on the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve in 1998, one of the few areas in Iceland where the Arctic...
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    Straumnes and in the former village of Látrar in the bay of Aðalvík, Hornstrandir. The site was operated by the 934th Aircraft Control and Warning (later...
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  • 18 November 1980, when it transported an ill lighthouse keeper from Hornstrandir to hospital in stormy weather conditions. On 2 March 1983, the crew of...
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  • native to North America and Iceland, where it is found in bird cliffs in Hornstrandir. In Iceland it has the conservation status of a vulnerable species (VU)...
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  • Fríða Áslaug Sigurðardóttir (born December 11, 1940, in Hornstrandir- died May 7, 2010, in Reykjavík) was an Icelandic novelist and short story writer...
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  • Sigurðsson and Stefanía Guðnadóttir, she was born in Hælavík on the Hornstrandir peninsula and grew up there. Her sister Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir was also...
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  • labourer, and Gunnvör Rósa Samúelsdóttir (1905–1967). Eyvindur grew up in Hornstrandir and Ísafjörður and went to school at Akureyri Junior College. After finishing...
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