Olafsvik

Ólafsvík is a small town in on the northern side of the 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.
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  • Type: Town with 978 residents
  • Description: town in Iceland
  • Also known as: “Ólafsvík”
  • Postal code: 355

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ólafsvíkurkirkja.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rif and Hellissandur.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 6 km northwest of Olafsvik.

Photo: Chris Johnston, CC BY 2.0.
is a village on the Snæfellsnes peninsula in . 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

Latitude
64.89593° or 64° 53′ 45″ north
Longitude
-23.70843° or 23° 42′ 30″ west
Population
978
IATA airport code
OLI
United Nations Location Code
IS OLV
Open location code
99PRV7WR+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 126054561
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3414079
Wiki­data ID
Q292970
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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”
  • Silesian: “Ólafsvík”
  • Spanish: “Olafsvik”
  • Spanish: “Olafsvík”
  • Spanish: “Ólafsvik”
  • Spanish: “Ólafsvík”
  • Swedish: “Ólafsvík”
  • Ukrainian: “Оулафсвік”
  • Urdu: “اولافس ویک”
  • Volapük: “Ólafsvík”

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