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thumb|The fjord Skagafjörðdur, seen from Sauðárkrókur Skagafjörður () is a deep fjord and its valley in northern Iceland.

Key facts

Settlement.name
Skagafjörður
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Country
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Iceland
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East from Vatnsskarð.jpg
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Panoramic view east across Skagafjörður valley, from Vatnsskarð pass
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Iceland
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right
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Location in Iceland

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Official website

Forsíða | Skagafjörður

skagafjordur.is →

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
fjord
Country
Iceland
Time zone
UTC±00:00
Image
East from Vatnsskarð.jpg
Width
40
Length
46
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Commons category
Skagafjörður (fjord)
topic's main category
Category:Skagafjörður
different from
Skagafjörður
IPA transcription
[ˈskaːɣaˌfjœrðʏr̥]
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Encyclopedic overview

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thumb|The fjord Skagafjörðdur, seen from Sauðárkrókur Skagafjörður () is a deep fjord and its valley in northern Iceland.

==Location== Skagafjörður, the fjord, is about 40 km long and 15 km wide, situated between Tröllaskagi to the east and the Skagi Peninsula to the west. There are two municipalities in the area, Skagafjörður Municipality (approx. 4140 inhabitants) and Akrahreppur Municipality (approx. 210 inhabitants).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Skagafjörður” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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