Þorskafjörður
Sign in to save500px|right|A view down to Þorskafjörður from Þorskafjarðarheiði. Þorskafjörður is a roughly sixteen-kilometre-long fjord in the Icelandic county of Austur-Barðastrandarsýsla.
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- Instance of
- fjord
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Austur-Barðastrandarsýsla
- Image
- Thorskafjordur.jpg
- Length
- 16
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- Þorskafjörður
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500px|right|A view down to Þorskafjörður from Þorskafjarðarheiði. Þorskafjörður is a roughly sixteen-kilometre-long fjord in the Icelandic county of Austur-Barðastrandarsýsla.
== Geography == thumb|Map showing Þorskafjörður, Djúpifjörður, and Gufufjörður, 1933 Þorskfjörður lies between headlands called Reykjanes and Skálanes. Like other fjords in its area, Þorskafjörður is shallow; its innermost shore is formed of clay. Two short and shallow fjords branch off Þorskafjörður: Djúpifjörður and Gufufjörður. The average flood height in Þorskafjörður is 3.60m and the highest measured flood height is 5.66m.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Þorskafjörður” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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