Siglufjörður
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Siglufjörður is a city in Iceland, situated within the administrative territory of Fjallabyggð. It shares a border with Ólafsfjörður and is located in the Northeast region. The town has a population of 1,182 and covers an area of 155. It is twinned with Vänersborg Municipality.
The city lies at an elevation of 1 above sea level and operates in the UTC±00:00 time zone. Its official name is Siglufjörður, and it is part of the Norðurland eystra area.
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- Locality
- Siglufjörður
- Region
- Northeast
- Country
- Ísland
- Population
- 1,164
- Timezone
- Atlantic/Reykjavik
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Siglufjörður
- Settlement.nicknames
- "Síldarbærinn" (Herring Town), Sigló'
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Siglufjörður (0859).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Siglufjörður
- Settlement.image_map
- Siglufjordur map.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the former Municipality of Siglufjörður
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Iceland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Iceland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituency
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northeast Constituency
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Northeastern Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Fjallabyggð
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 155
- Settlement.population_as_of
- January 2025
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Siglufjörður
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Fjallabyggð
- Population
- 1182
- Area
- 155
- Elevation
- 1
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Ólafsfjörður
- Official website
- www.fjallabyggd.is
- Image
- Siglufjörður (0859).jpg
Show 4 more facts
- twinned administrative body
- Vänersborg Municipality
- Commons category
- Siglufjörður (town)
- P12749
- Aachen cities region
- native label
- Siglufjörður
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Travel guide
Understand
Between 1900 and 1960 Siglufjörður was prominent in fishing for herring. Although many North Iceland towns where active in fishing for herring at the time, the effects of the herring fisheries where most prominent in Siglufjörður. To begin with herring was salted, but later on a dedicated factory was built. The remnants of this era can be seen in the local herring fishery museum. After the herring era, the factory was changed to process other types of seafood.
The town is the setting of both Ragnar Jónasson's Nordic Noir "dark Iceland" novels and much of the first two seasons of Icelandic Nordic Noir series "Trapped", which was shot here, in Reykjavik and in Seyðisfjörður.
Get around
No bus system is present within Siglufjörður. Walking around is reccomended as the longest walking distance is 2.2 kilometers.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siglufjörður” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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