Iceland

Drangey is an Icelandic island, which is located in the center of the fjord Skagafjörður. It consists mostly of Tuff. In this Fischer place lived occasionally up to 200 people and in the best years they caught over 200.000 birds.


Eldey is a rock island in front of the southwest coast of Iceland. The island is also mentioned as flour bag island, because of the white colouring of the plateau by bird excrement. At the foot of the rock the last breeding's pair of flight-unable giant alkene in the year 1844 was killed. On the rock plate are nesting today predominantly northern gannets.


Flatey is the largest island in the middle of Breiðafjörður in Iceland. The island is settled and retaining station of a ferry, which drives from Stykkishólmur on the other side of the fjord to Brjánslækur.


Grímsey is a small island 40 km in the north direction of the north coast of Iceland, direct at the polar circle, which runs by the island, with a maximum height of 105 m over the sea level. The island is a very good place for ornithologists.


Kolbeinsey is a tiny volcanic island, 105 km northern to the Icelandic north coast. The island exhibits a helicopter landing pad, which stood for the erosion to hold this.


Surtsey (north. Island of the Surt) is an on 14 November 1963 emerged volcanic island in the Atlantic ocean, which is located for about 30 km in front of the south coast of Iceland. The Icelandic government aims at the admission Surtseys into the list of the UNESCO world heritage.


The Vestmannaeyjar are a archipelago of volcanic origin in the south of Iceland, which consists of 14 islands, 30 skerries and 30 rocks. Surtsey is the most southern and Elliðaey the most northern island of them.