The Herring Era Museum is located in Siglufjörður, Iceland. It is Iceland's largest maritime museum and the only Icelandic museum to have won the European Museum Award.

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Siglufjörður is a small fishing town in a narrow fjord with the same name on the northern coast of Iceland. The population in 2011 was 1,206; the town has been shrinking in size since the 1950s when the town reached its peak of 3,000 inhabitants.

Siglufjörður

Type: Fjord
Also known as: “Sigle Fiord”, “Siglufjördr”, and “Siglufjordur”
Category: body of water
Location: Fjallabyggð, Northeast, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude

66.16138° or 66° 9′ 41″ north

Longitude

-18.88552° or 18° 53′ 8″ west

Open location code

9CR35467+HQ

GeoNames ID

2627131

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