
The ''Jökulfirðir'' (, "glacier fjords") form a system of five
fjords in
Westfjords,
Iceland, situated north of
Ísafjarðardjúp and south of the
Hornstrandir
Hornstrandir () is Iceland's northernmost peninsula, covering at the northern end of the Westfjords, to the north of the Jökulfirðir and to the northwest of Drangajökull glacier.
Ecosystem
The area covers of tundra, fjord, glacier and alpin ...
peninsula. They are named for ''
Drangajökull
Drangajökull (, regionally also ) is the northernmost glacier of Iceland. It is situated southwest of the peninsula Hornstrandir in the Westfjords region. The glacier covers an area of , at an altitude of up to . It is the only Icelandic glacie ...
'', a glacier situated to the southeast of the fjords.
The area surrounding the fjords used to be permanently inhabited until the 1960s, but is now occupied only seasonally, as a summer resort. The fjords cannot be reached by road, but are accessible by boat from
Ísafjörður,
Bolungarvík and
Súðavík.
The individual five fjords are:
* Hesteyrarfjörður
* Veiðileysufjörður
* Lónafjörður
* Hrafnsfjörður
* Leirufjörður
References
Fjords of Iceland
Westfjords
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