Patreksfjordur
Patreksfjörður is a fishing village in the Westfjords of Iceland. It was an important fishing and trading post until the Icelandic government's introduction of a fishing quota in 1990.- Type: Town with 714 residents
- Description: village in Northwest Constituency, Iceland
- Also known as: “Patreksfjoerdur”, “Patreksfjörður”, “Patrix Fjord”, and “Vatneyri”
- Postal codes: 450 and 451
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Talknafjordur.
Talknafjordur
Village
Tálknafjörður is a fjord located in southern Westfjords between Patreksfjörður and Bíldudalur in Iceland. The term is also used for the immediate village and the former municipality of Tálknafjarðarhreppur. Talknafjordur is situated 9 km northeast of Patreksfjordur.
Patreksfjordur
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Vesturbyggð, Westfjords, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
65.59729° or 65° 35′ 50″ north
Longitude
-24.0009° or 24° 0′ 3″ west
Population
714
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
IATA airport code
PFJ
United Nations Location Code
IS PAT
Open location code
99QQHXWX+WJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Patreksfjordur” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Patreksfjörður”
- Basque: “Patreksfjörður”
- Cebuano: “Patreksfjörður”
- Chinese: “帕特雷克斯菲厄澤”
- Czech: “Patreksfjörður”
- Dutch: “Patreksfjordhur”
- Dutch: “Patreksfjörður”
- Finnish: “Patreksfjörður”
- French: “Patreksfjörður”
- German: “Patreksfjörður”
- Icelandic: “Patreksfjarðar”
- Icelandic: “Patreksfjörð”
- Icelandic: “Patreksfjörður”
- Icelandic: “Patresfirði”
- Icelandic: “Vesturbyggð”
- Italian: “Patreksfjörður”
- Japanese: “パトレクスフィヨルズル”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Patreksfjörður”
- Norwegian: “Patreksfjörður”
- Polish: “Patreksfjörður”
- Portuguese: “Patreksfjörður”
- Russian: “Патрексфьордюр”
- Spanish: “Patreksfjörður”
- Swedish: “Patreksfjörður”
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