Iceland
West Iceland
Snæfellsbær

Hellissandur

Hellissandur 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.
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  • Type: Village with 358 residents
  • Description: village in Iceland
  • Also known as: “Hellissandi”, “Sandhur”, and “Sandur”
  • Postal code: 360

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rif.

Village
Photo: Steinninn, CC BY 4.0.
is a village.

Hellissandur

Latitude
64.9172° or 64° 55′ 2″ north
Longitude
-23.8825° or 23° 52′ 57″ west
Population
358
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
99PRW489+V2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 126053571
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3416439
Wiki­data ID
Q1602897
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Swedish—“Hellissandur” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Hellissandur”
  • Basque: “Hellissandur”
  • Bulgarian: “Хелисандур”
  • Cebuano: “Hellissandur”
  • Chinese: “海德利桑德”
  • Czech: “Hellissandur”
  • Dutch: “Hellissandur”
  • French: “Hellissandur”
  • German: “Hellissandur”
  • Icelandic: “Hellissandur”
  • Italian: “Hellissandur”
  • Japanese: “ヘリサンドゥル”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hellissandur”
  • Norwegian: “Hellissandur”
  • Polish: “Hellissandur”
  • Portuguese: “Hellissandur”
  • Slovak: “Hellissandur”
  • Slovenian: “Hellissandur”
  • Spanish: “Hellissandur”
  • Swedish: “Hellissandur”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hellissandur”. Photo: Chris Johnston, CC BY 2.0.