Heimaey
Heimaey, is an Icelandic island. At 13.4 square kilometres, it is the largest island in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, and the largest and most populated island off the Icelandic coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Iceland
- Also known as: “Heima” and “Heimay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vestmannaeyjar Airport and Helgafell.
Vestmannaeyjar Airport
Aerodrome
Vestmannaeyjar Airport is a two-runway airport on the island of Heimaey, in Vestmannaeyjar, a small archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. The airport services seasonal, charter and medical flights as well as general aviation.
Helgafell
Volcano
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Helgafell is an inactive 227 m volcanic cone located on the island of Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago in Iceland. The Stórhöfði peninsula immediately to the south of Helgafell in what is now southern Heimaey formed about 6000 years ago.
Eldfell
Volcano
Photo: michael clarke stuff, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eldfell is a volcanic cone just over 200 metres high on the Icelandic 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
- Category: landform
- Location: Vestmannaeyjar, South Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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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: “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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