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Reykjanes - Attractions
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Básendar
Former trading place and fishing centre
By road no. 45 between Sandgerði and Hafnir
Básendar, or Bátsendar, former trading place and fishing centre just south of the Stafnes lighthouse. A record high tide on January 9th 1799 destroyed most buildings but all the people bar one managed to escape.
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Kalfatjorn
Church, Parsonage and Golf Course
By road number 420 between Vogar and Hafnarfjörður
Kalfatjorn Church, Parsonage and Golf Course
Kálfatjörn a church and parsonage until 1907. The church is one of the largest country churches in Iceland. At Kálfatjörn is a popular 9 hole golf course.
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Krýsuvík
Geothermal heat and Ancient Manor
By road number 42 by Kleifarvatn
Ancient manor farm and church now abandoned along with other nearby farms. Much geothermal heat, with drill-holes for possible exploitation. The church is still standing and consecrated anew 1964, in the care of the Nati...
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Selatangar
Protected remains of an old fishing-station
By road no. 427 between Grindavík and Krýsuvík
Selatangar, protected remains of an old fishing-station on the coast south of the Núpshlíðarháls ridge. The ghost Tanga-Tómas, or Tumi, was said to haunt the place.
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Stafnes
Formerly an ancient manor farm with many smaller farms around it
By road no. 45 between Sandgerði and Hafnir
Stafnes, formerly an ancient manor farm with many smaller farms around it. In Stafnes there is a lighthouse. The coast there has proved very dangerous to shipping
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Strandakirkja
A church
By road number 42 between Þórlákshöfn & Krýsuvík
Strandarkirkja, (“Coast church”) a church in Selvogur, now far from farms and the only remains of the once flourishing community Strönd (“Coast”), at one time the home of some of the richest and most powerful men in Icel...
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Hot Springs
Gunnuhver
Hot Spring
By road number 425 between Grindavík and Hafnir
Much geothermal heat, sulphur and mud springs, the best known is Gunnuhver or Gunna.
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Krýsuvík
Geothermal heat and Ancient Manor
By road number 42 by Kleifarvatn
Ancient manor farm and church now abandoned along with other nearby farms. Much geothermal heat, with drill-holes for possible exploitation. The church is still standing and consecrated anew 1964, in the care of the Nati...
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Skátalaug
Hot Spring, Possible to bath
By Kleifarvatn Lake,
Krýsuvík
The water is originated from a hot spring source not far away. The temperature is around 34 °C. The water flow ends in a small hot spring which is about 2.5 m in diameter from there it runs to a bigger hot spring, 10x5x...
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Islands
Eldey
Island
A rock, or island, 77 m high c.a. 14 km off Reykjanes. Home of the biggest gannet colony in the world, protected
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Mountains
Keilir
Mountain
A cone-shaped (379 m) tuff mountain with fine views. It is usually possible to drive to Höskuldarvellir just east of Keilir. A Hiking trail is from Höskuldarvellir to Keilir. The trail is about 3-4 km and it takes ab...
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Garðskagi
Birdwatching & Lighthouse
The outermost point of the Miðnes peninsula, the northpointing "toe" of the Reykjanes peninsula. Quite densely populated. Old and new lighthouses, birdwatching station. In the old lighthousem, built 1897, there is a ...
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Gunnuhver
Hot Spring
By road number 425 between Grindavík and Hafnir
Much geothermal heat, sulphur and mud springs, the best known is Gunnuhver or Gunna.
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Hafnarberg
Sea-Cliffs
By road number 425 between Hafnir & Grindavík
Sea-cliffs with many seabirds. South of the cliffs, the New World meets the Old World, geologically speaking. The European and American plates come together, and the line of their meeting "comes ashore" at this point...
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Krýsuvík
Geothermal heat and Ancient Manor
By road number 42 by Kleifarvatn
Ancient manor farm and church now abandoned along with other nearby farms. Much geothermal heat, with drill-holes for possible exploitation. The church is still standing and consecrated anew 1964, in the care of the Nati...
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Reykjanes
The southwestern point of Reykjanes peninsula
By road number 425 between Grindavík and Hafnir
The southwestern point of the Reykjanes peninsula, barren, with lava and a much-indented coastline. The shield-volcanoes Skálafell and Háleyjarbunga and the volcanic rifts Stampar. The tuff mountain Valahnúkur where ...
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Selatangar
Protected remains of an old fishing-station
By road no. 427 between Grindavík and Krýsuvík
Selatangar, protected remains of an old fishing-station on the coast south of the Núpshlíðarháls ridge. The ghost Tanga-Tómas, or Tumi, was said to haunt the place.
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Staðarborg
stone-built sheep fold
By road no. 420 by Kálfatjörn.
A severel hundred year old stone-built sheep fold.
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Strandakirkja
A church
By road number 42 between Þórlákshöfn & Krýsuvík
Strandarkirkja, (“Coast church”) a church in Selvogur, now far from farms and the only remains of the once flourishing community Strönd (“Coast”), at one time the home of some of the richest and most powerful men in Icel...
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The Blue Laqoon
Natural Spa
The Blue Lagoon an internationally popular recreational and therapeutic pool of deliciously warm and mineral rich geothermal water carved out of the Svartsengi lava field. The tectonicallly supercharged brine flows from ...
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Vatnsleysustrond
Scenic root with a beautiful view
Road 420 between Vogar and Hafnarfjörður
A community along the coast southwest of Straumsvík to Vogastapi sea cliffs, the farms being close to sea. Little grass except around the farms, otherwise mostly lava all the way to the Reykjanes mountains. Fish ...
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