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Ingólfshöfði

Ingólfshöfði is a small headland and private nature reserve on the south coast of . It is believed to be the location where Ingólfur Arnarson originally landed in Iceland in or around 874 CE, and where he stayed the first winter and it is named after him as a result.
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  • Type: Nature reserve
  • Description: cape in Iceland
  • Also known as: “Ingólfs Head”, “Ingolfshofdi”, and “Ingólfsnöfði”

Ingólfshöfði

Latitude
63.80058° or 63° 48′ 2″ north
Longitude
-16.64608° or 16° 38′ 46″ west
Open location code
9CM5R923+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 411196940
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­nature_reserve
Geo­Names ID
2629649
Wiki­data ID
Q1419802
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Ingólfshöfði” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Ingólfshöfði”
  • Cebuano: “Ingólfshöfði”
  • Chinese: “英格福修第岬”
  • French: “Ingólfshöfði”
  • German: “Ingólfshöfði”
  • Icelandic: “Ingólfshöfði”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ingólfshöfði”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ingólfshöfði”
  • Polish: “Ingólfshöfði”
  • Swedish: “Ingólfshöfði”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ingólfshöfði”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.