Jökulfirðir
Sign in to savethumb|400 px|Hornstrandir and Jökulfirðir The Jökulfirðir (, "glacier fjords") form a system of five fjords in Westfjords, Iceland, situated north of Ísafjarðardjúp and south of the Hornstrandir peninsula. They are named for Drangajökull, a glacier situated to the southeast of the fjords.
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thumb|400 px|Hornstrandir and Jökulfirðir The Jökulfirðir (, "glacier fjords") form a system of five fjords in Westfjords, Iceland, situated north of Ísafjarðardjúp and south of the Hornstrandir peninsula. They are named for Drangajökull, a glacier situated to the southeast of the fjords.
The area surrounding the fjords used to be permanently inhabited until the 1960s, but is now occupied only seasonally, as a summer resort. The fjords cannot be reached by road, but are accessible by boat from Ísafjörður.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jökulfirðir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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