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Vestmannaeyjar

Vestmannaeyjar is a town on the island of Heimaey. Heimaey is the largest of 15–18 islands in the Westman Islands archipelago, just off the south-west coast of 's mainland.
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  • Type: Town with 4,470 residents
  • Description: town and municipality in South Constituency, Iceland
  • Also known as: “Vestmann Islands”, “Vestmannaeyja”, and “Vestmannaeyjum”
  • Postal codes: 900 and 902

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eldfell and Vestmannaeyjar Airport.

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

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

Volcano
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an inactive 227 m volcanic cone located on the island of in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago in . The peninsula immediately to the south of in what is now southern Heimaey formed about 6000 years ago.

Vestmannaeyjar

Latitude
63.4401° or 63° 26′ 24″ north
Longitude
-20.2786° or 20° 16′ 43″ west
Population
4,470
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
IATA airport code
VEY
United Nations Location Code
IS VES
Open location code
99MXCPRC+2H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 457702046
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3412093
Wiki­data ID
Q187251
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Vestmannaeyjar” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Albanian: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Arabic: “يستمان”
  • Armenian: “Վեստմաննաեիյար”
  • Asturian: “Islles Vestman”
  • Asturian: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Basque: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Belarusian: “Вестманаэяр”
  • Belarusian: “Вэстманаэяр”
  • Bengali: “ভেস্টমান্না দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Catalan: “Illes Vestmann”
  • Catalan: “Illes Westman”
  • Catalan: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Cebuano: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Chinese: “Vestmannaeyjabær”
  • Chinese: “韋斯特曼納埃亞爾”
  • Chinese: “韦斯特曼纳埃亚尔”
  • Chinese: “韦斯特曼纳群岛”
  • Croatian: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Czech: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Czech: “Vestmanovy ostrovy”
  • Danish: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Dutch: “Vestmannaeyar”
  • Dutch: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Dutch: “Westman eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Westman-eilanden”
  • Esperanto: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Estonian: “Vestmannaeyjabaer”
  • Estonian: “Vestmannaeyjabær”
  • Estonian: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Estonian: “Vestmanni saarestik”
  • Faroese: “Vestmannaoyggjarnar”
  • Finnish: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Finnish: “Vestmannasaaret”
  • French: “Iles Vestmann”
  • French: “Îles Vestmann”
  • French: “Vestmann”
  • French: “Vestmannaeyjabaer”
  • French: “Vestmannaeyjabær”
  • French: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Galician: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • German: “Vestmannaeyjabær”
  • German: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • German: “Westmänner-Inseln”
  • German: “Westmännerinseln”
  • German: “Westmännnerinseln”
  • Greek: “Βέστμαναεγιαρ”
  • Greek: “Βέστμανεγιαρ”
  • Hebrew: “איי וסטמאנאאיאר”
  • Hebrew: “איי וסטמן”
  • Hebrew: “וסטמאנאאיאר”
  • Hungarian: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Icelandic: “Vestmannaeyjabær”
  • Icelandic: “Vestmannaeyjahreppur”
  • Icelandic: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Ido: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Indonesian: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Interlingue: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Vestmann”
  • Irish: “Vestmannaeyjabaer”
  • Irish: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Italian: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Japanese: “ヴェストマンナエイヤル”
  • Japanese: “ヴェストマン諸島”
  • Kalaallisut: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Korean: “베스트만나 제도”
  • Korean: “베스트만나에이야르 제도”
  • Korean: “베스트만나에이야르”
  • Korean: “베스트만네이야르”
  • Latin: “Vestmannorum Insulae”
  • Lithuanian: “Vestmanaejaras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Macedonian: “Вестманаејар”
  • Macedonian: “Вестмански Острови”
  • Malay: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vestmannaeyjabær”
  • Northern Sami: “Vestmannaeyjabær”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestmannaeyar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestmannaeyjabær”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestmannaøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Norwegian: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Ossetian: “Вестманнаэйяр”
  • Persian: “جزایر وستمن”
  • Polish: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Vestmann”
  • Portuguese: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Quechua: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Romanian: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Russian: “Вестманнаэйар”
  • Russian: “Вестманнаэйяр”
  • Russian: “Вестманнаэяр”
  • Scots: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Slovenian: “Vestmanski otoki”
  • Spanish: “Islas Vestman”
  • Spanish: “Islas Westman”
  • Spanish: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Swedish: “Västmannaöarna”
  • Swedish: “Vestmannaeyar”
  • Swedish: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Thai: “แวสต์มานาเอย์ยาร์”
  • Turkish: “Vestmann Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Ukrainian: “Вестманнаейяр”
  • Ukrainian: “Вестманнові острови”
  • Ukrainian: “Вестманові острови”
  • Ukrainian: “Острови Вестманна”
  • Ukrainian: “Острови Вестманнаейяр”
  • Urdu: “جزائر ویسٹ مین”
  • Vietnamese: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Volapük: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Welsh: “Vestmannaeyjar”
  • Welsh: “Westman Islands”

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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 “Vestmannaeyjar”. Photo: Thomas Quine, CC BY-SA 2.0.