Fangelsið Akureyri
Fangelsið Akureyri is a prison in Akureyri, Northeast. Fangelsið Akureyri is situated nearby to the police station Lögreglustöðin á Akureyri, as well as near the church Ríkissalur Votta Jehóva.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Akureyrarkirkja and Akureyri Art Museum.
Akureyrarkirkja
Church
Photo: Jon Gretarsson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Akureyrarkirkja or The Church of Akureyri is a prominent Lutheran church at Akureyri in northern Iceland. Located in the centre of the city, it was designed by Guðjón Samúelsson and completed in 1940. Akureyrarkirkja is situated 760 metres southeast of Fangelsið Akureyri.
Akureyri Art Museum
Art gallery
Photo: JasonParis, CC BY 2.0.
The Akureyri Art Museum was founded in 1993. The museum is located in the center of Akureyri, the second-largest city in Iceland. Originally home to a dairy, the building which houses the gallery is noted as a good example of the Bauhaus school of architecture. Akureyri Art Museum is situated 680 metres southeast of Fangelsið Akureyri.
Akureyri Botanical Garden
Garden
Photo: RenJJ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Akureyri Botanical Garden is a unique and significant botanical garden located in the southern part of Akureyri, a city in Northern Iceland. Situated on the west side of the inland end of the fjord Eyjafjörður, at an elevation of about 45 metres, the garden is one of the northernmost botanical gardens in the world, just 85 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle. Akureyri Botanical Garden is situated 1¼ km south of Fangelsið Akureyri.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Svalbarðseyri.
Svalbarðseyri
Village
Photo: Navaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Svalbarðseyri is a small village in the Svalbarðsstrandarhreppur municipality, northern Iceland, which in January 2011 had 245 inhabitants. It is located on the east coast of Eyjafjörður fjord. Svalbarðseyri is situated 7 km north of Fangelsið Akureyri.
Fangelsið Akureyri
- Type: Prison
- Category: government building
- Location: Akureyri, Northeast, North Iceland, Iceland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
65.6857° or 65° 41′ 9″ northLongitude
-18.0996° or 18° 5′ 59″ westOpen location code
9CQ3MWP2+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 320562091OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=prison
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