Olafsvik
Ólafsvík is a small town in Iceland on the northern side of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. At one point in the 17th and 18th centuries, commercial vessels sailed between Ólafsvík and Denmark, and the village was one of the larger trading ports in Iceland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 960 residents
- Description: town in Iceland
- Also known as: “Ólafsvík”
- Postal code: 355
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ólafsvíkurkirkja.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rif and Hellissandur.
Hellissandur
Photo: Chris Johnston, CC BY 2.0.
Hellissandur is a village on the Snæfellsnes peninsula in West Iceland. The village is considered one of the first fishing villages on Iceland, existing already in the 16th century, when people elsewhere mostly lived on agriculture.
Olafsvik
- Category: locality
- Location: Snæfellsbær, West Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
64.89593° or 64° 53′ 45″ northLongitude
-23.70844° or 23° 42′ 30″ westPopulation
960IATA airport code
OLIUnited Nations Location Code
IS OLVOpen location code
99PRV7WR+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 126054561OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Volapük—“Olafsvik” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ólafsvík”
- Basque: “Ólafsvík”
- Belarusian: “Оўлафсвік”
- Belarusian: “Оўляфсьвік”
- Cebuano: “Ólafsvík”
- Chinese: “歐拉夫斯維克”
- Czech: “Ólafsvík”
- Danish: “Ólafsvík”
- Dutch: “Olafsvik”
- Dutch: “Ólafsvík”
- Faroese: “Ólafsvík”
- French: “Olafsvik”
- French: “Ólafsvík”
- Galician: “Ólafsvík”
- Georgian: “ოულაფსვიკი”
- German: “Olafsvik”
- German: “Ólafsvik”
- German: “Ólafsvík”
- Icelandic: “Ólafsvík”
- Icelandic: “Ólafsvíkurbær”
- Icelandic: “Ólafsvíkurhreppur”
- Icelandic: “Ólafsvíkurkaupstaður”
- Indonesian: “Ólafsvík”
- Italian: “Ólafsvík”
- Japanese: “オーラフスビーク”
- Japanese: “オゥラフスヴィーク”
- Japanese: “オラフスヴィク”
- Korean: “올라프스비크”
- Lithuanian: “Oulafsvikas”
- Macedonian: “Оулафсвик”
- Moksha: “Оулафсвик”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ólafsvík”
- Norwegian: “Ólafsvík”
- Ossetian: “Олафсвик”
- Ossetian: “Оулафсвик”
- Polish: “Olafsvik”
- Polish: “Ólafsvík”
- Portuguese: “Ólafsvík”
- Russian: “Олафсвик”
- Russian: “Оулафсвик”
- Scots: “Ólafsvík”
- Spanish: “Olafsvik”
- Spanish: “Olafsvík”
- Spanish: “Ólafsvik”
- Spanish: “Ólafsvík”
- Swedish: “Ólafsvík”
- Ukrainian: “Оулафсвік”
- Volapük: “Ólafsvík”
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