Southwest Iceland

Kópavogur () is a town in Iceland that is the country's second-largest municipality by population.

thumb|Galgahraun lava field on Álftanes thumb|Bessastaðir Álftanes () is the name of a town and a collection of small peninsulas in Iceland. It means swan peninsula.

right|Faxa Bay shown in blue Faxaflói (), sometimes Faxa Bay, Faxe Bay or Faxi Bay, is a bay in southwest Iceland, between the peninsulas of Snæfellsnes and Reykjanes.

thumb|330px|18th-century sketch of Geirfuglasker thumb|330px|Former location of Geirfuglasker among the Fuglasker islands Geirfuglasker (, "Great Auk Rock") was a small islet near Reykjanes, Iceland. It was volcanic rock with steep sides except for two landing places. The rough surf around the island usually made it inaccessible to humans, and one of the last refuges for the flightless bird the great auk (which was also called "garefowl" — "geirfugl" in Icelandic). In a volcanic eruption in 1830 this rock submerged. The surviving great auks moved to a nearby island called Eldey and were wiped