Bjargtangar
Bjargtangar is the westernmost point of Iceland and is considered the westernmost point of Europe outside the mid-Atlantic archipelago of Azores. It is the westernmost point in the Greenwich Mean Time time zone.
- Cape
- …lies at an elevation of 13 metres (43 feet)
- Description: cape in Iceland
- Also known as“Bjargtanga”“Staalbierg Huk”“Stallberg Huk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Staalbierg Huk Lighthouse.
Staalbierg Huk Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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Bjargtangar
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
65.50272° or 65° 30′ 10″ north
Longitude
-24.53172° or 24° 31′ 54″ west
Open location code
99QQGF39+38
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Bjargtangar” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Бяргтангар”
- Cebuano: “Bjargtangar”
- Chinese: “比亚尔格角”
- Chinese: “比亞爾格角”
- Czech: “Bjargtangar”
- Czech: “mys Bjargtangar”
- Dutch: “Bjargtangar”
- French: “Bjargtangar”
- German: “Bjargtangar”
- Icelandic: “Bjargtangar”
- Japanese: “ビヤルクタンガール”
- Japanese: “ビャルク岬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bjargtangar”
- Polish: “Bjargtangar”
- Portuguese: “Bjargtangar”
- Romanian: “Bjargtangar”
- Russian: “Бьяргтаунгар”
- Swedish: “Bjargtangar”
- Swedish: “Bjartangar”
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Localities in the Area
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