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Hornstrandir
Sign in to savethumb|Hornbjarg in Hornstrandir thumb|Hornstrandir peninsula and Jökulfirðir Hornstrandir () is Iceland's northernmost peninsula, covering at the northern end of the Westfjords, to the north of the Jökulfirðir and to the northwest of Drangajökull glacier.
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- Instance of
- geographic location
- Official name
- Hornstrandir
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Ísafjarðarbær
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 58914.95258
- Elevation
- 740
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- Hornbjarg.jpg
- Width
- 20
- Length
- 45
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- Hornstrandir
- inception
- 1985-01-01
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thumb|Hornbjarg in Hornstrandir thumb|Hornstrandir peninsula and Jökulfirðir Hornstrandir () is Iceland's northernmost peninsula, covering at the northern end of the Westfjords, to the north of the Jökulfirðir and to the northwest of Drangajökull glacier.
==Ecosystem== The area covers of tundra, fjord, glacier and alpine land with rich but fragile vegetation, and protected as Hornstrandir Nature Reserve since 1975, under some of the strictest preservation rules in Iceland. The area's nature thrived as very few people resided there. In the 1950s, the handful of its residents who were based on agricultural livelihood left. However, decades later, some of their descendants returned and rebuilt their old houses, and much of the land is privately owned.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hornstrandir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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