Western Region (Iceland)

region in Iceland

Snæfellsjökull (, snow-fell glacier) is a 700,000-year-old glacier-capped stratovolcano in western Iceland. It is situated on the westernmost part of the Snæfellsnes peninsula. Sometimes it may be seen from the city of Reykjavík over Faxa Bay, at a distance of .

thumb|Main bays and fjords of Iceland. Breiðafjörður and Faxaflói are the largest bays. thumb|Breiðafjörður from Brjánslækur as the ferry Baldur arrives. Breiðafjörður (, wide fjord) is a large shallow bay of the Irminger Sea, about wide and long, to the west of Iceland. It separates the region of the Westfjords (Vestfirðir) from the Snæfellsnes peninsula to the south. Breiðafjörður is encircled by mountains, including Kirkjufell and the glacier Snæfellsjökull on the Snæfellsnes peninsula, and the Látrabjarg bird cliffs at the tip of the Westfjords. Numerous smaller fjords extend inland from B

Hvalfjarðarsveit () is a municipality in Vesturland, Iceland. The municipality derives its name from the fjord Hvalfjörður, which forms its southern border.

Hvalfjörður (, "whale fjord") is situated in the west of Iceland between Mosfellsbær and Akranes. The fjord is approximately long and wide. thumb|A portrait of the legend of the valley of Glymur with the "Rauðhöfði" The origin of the name Hvalfjörður is uncertain. Certainly today there is no presence of whales in the fjord; while there is a whaling station in the fjord, whaling is conducted in the open ocean outside the fjord; likewise, it is modern and postdates the naming of the fjord. One theory as to the naming of the fjord is that early settlers encountered a pod of whales trapped in the

right|thumb|200px|Borgarfjörður seen from Borgarnes, November 2007. right|thumb|200px|Borgarfjörður seen from Stóri-Kroppur Borgarfjörður () is a fjord in the west of Iceland near the town of Borgarnes. Although the waters of Borgarfjörður appear calm, the fjord has significant undercurrents and shallows. The many flat islands lying in the fjord are for the most part uninhabited.

island in Iceland

one of the six constituencies (kjördæmi) of Iceland

Dalasýsla (, ) was one of the pre-1988 traditional counties of Iceland, located in the Western Region of the country. Its only town is Búðardalur.

Hjörsey () is the largest island in western Iceland and the third largest in Iceland. It was part of the traditional county of Mýrasýsla; there used to be a church on Hjörsey, but it was taken apart in 1896. The island was also formerly home to a farm. While there is no human population on the island, a herd of wild horses is able to roam the island freely.

Geitlandsjökull () is a lateral glacier of Langjökull, with a flowshed of from the second largest ice cap in Iceland at , in the west of Iceland. It has also been used as the name for the substantial Langjökull ice cap, as has the name Suðurjöklar. The highest point of Geitlandsjökull, which lies on top of a tuya, reaches a height of .

thumb|Reconstructed longhouse at Eiríksstaðir Eiríksstaðir () is the former homestead of Eiríkr Þorvaldsson, known as Erik the Red, at Haukadalur Valley in the Dalasýsla region of Iceland. It was likely the birthplace of his son Leif Eiríksson, the first known European discoverer of the Americas. A site thought to be that of the original farm has been investigated by archaeologists and remains of two buildings dating to the 9th–10th centuries have been identified. An open-air museum has been established nearby.

valley in Dalabyggð, Iceland

500px|right|A view down to Þorskafjörður from Þorskafjarðarheiði. Þorskafjörður is a roughly sixteen-kilometre-long fjord in the Icelandic county of Austur-Barðastrandarsýsla.

airport in Iceland

airport in Iceland