Hjörsey
Hjörsey is the largest island in western Iceland and the third largest in Iceland. It was part of the traditional county of Mýrasýsla; there used to be a church on Hjörsey, but it was taken apart in 1896.- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Hjorsey” and “Hjortsey”
Hjörsey
- Category: landform
- Location: Borgarbyggð, West Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Hjörsey” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Hjörsey”
- Cebuano: “Hjörsey (pulo sa Islandya, Vesturland)”
- Cebuano: “Hjörsey”
- Chinese: “赫爾斯島”
- Danish: “Hjörsey”
- Dutch: “Hjörsey”
- French: “Hjörsey”
- German: “Hjörsey”
- Icelandic: “Hjörsey”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hjörsey”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hjörsey”
- Polish: “Hjörsey”
- Russian: “Хьёрсей”
- Swedish: “Hjörsey”
- Turkish: “Hjörsey (Vesturland)”
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