Heimaey

Heimaey, is an island. At 13.4 square kilometres, it is the largest island in the archipelago, and the largest and most populated island off the Icelandic coast.
Wikipedia
Photo: Bruce McAdam, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Iceland
  • Also known as: “Heima” and “Heimay”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vestmannaeyjar Airport and Helgafell.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
is a two-runway on the island of Heimaey, in , a small archipelago off the south coast of . The airport services seasonal, charter and medical flights as well as general aviation.

Volcano
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is an inactive 227 m volcanic cone located on the island of Heimaey in the archipelago in . The peninsula immediately to the south of in what is now southern Heimaey formed about 6000 years ago.

Volcano
Photo: michael clarke stuff, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a volcanic cone just over 200 metres high on the island of Heimaey in the Westman Islands. It formed in a volcanic eruption that began without warning on the eastern side of Heimaey on 23 January 1973.

Heimaey

Latitude
63.43036° or 63° 25′ 49″ north
Longitude
-20.2745° or 20° 16′ 28″ west
Population
4,090
Elevation
151 metres (495 feet)
Open location code
99MXCPJG+46
Geo­Names ID
3416486
Wiki­data ID
Q211182
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Heimaey” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Heimaey”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة هيماي”
  • Arabic: “هيماي”
  • Armenian: “Հեյմաեյ”
  • Asturian: “Heimaey”
  • Basque: “Heimaey”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Хеймаэй”
  • Belarusian: “Хеймаэй”
  • Catalan: “Heimaey”
  • Cebuano: “Heimaey (pulo sa Islandya, Suðurland)”
  • Cebuano: “Heimaey”
  • Chinese: “赫馬島”
  • Chinese: “赫马岛”
  • Croatian: “Heimaey”
  • Czech: “Heimaey”
  • Danish: “Heimaey”
  • Dutch: “Heimaey”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره هيماى”
  • Esperanto: “Heimaey”
  • Estonian: “Heimaey”
  • Finnish: “Heimaey”
  • French: “Heimaey”
  • German: “Heimaey”
  • Greek: “Χέιμαεϊ”
  • Hebrew: “היימאי”
  • Hebrew: “היימאיי”
  • Hungarian: “Heimaey”
  • Icelandic: “Heimaey”
  • Italian: “Heimaey”
  • Japanese: “ヘイマイエ”
  • Japanese: “ヘイマイエ島”
  • Japanese: “ヘイマエイ”
  • Japanese: “ヘイマエイ島”
  • Japanese: “ヘイマ島”
  • Korean: “헤이마에이 섬”
  • Korean: “헤이마에이섬”
  • Latin: “Heimaey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Heimaey”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Heimaey”
  • Norwegian: “Heimaey”
  • Persian: “هیمایی”
  • Polish: “Heimaey”
  • Portuguese: “Heimaey”
  • Romanian: “Heimaey”
  • Russian: “Хеймаэй”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Heimaey”
  • Slovak: “Heimaey”
  • Slovenian: “Heimaey”
  • Spanish: “Heimaey”
  • Swedish: “Heimaey”
  • Swedish: “Hemön”
  • Turkish: “Heimaey Adası”
  • Turkish: “Heimaey”
  • Turkish: “Hemön”
  • Ukrainian: “Геймаей”
  • Urdu: “ہیمائی”
  • Vietnamese: “Heimaey”

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