Húsavík

Everything on the harbour

Straight-line distances from the quay, computed from our own coordinates.

1. Hvalasafnið — the Whale Museum — 300 m
   Skeletons of the animals you are about to go looking for, in an old slaughterhouse on the harbour. Three hundred metres from where the boats tie up.
2. Safnahúsið — 200 m
   The town’s own museum — maritime history, folk collections and the regional archive, in one building by the harbour.
3. The Exploration Museum — 800 m
   Húsavík’s strangest claim: NASA trained Apollo astronauts on the lava fields nearby because the ground here resembles the Moon. This is the museum about that.
4. Sundlaug Húsavíkur — 600 m
   The town pool. Warmer than the boat, and open long after the last sailing.
5. Tjaldsvæðið á Húsavík — 800 m
   The campsite, also walking distance from the harbour — which is the whole point of this town.

Fuel, today

Fill up before you head east — the Diamond Circle has long empty stretches and the next reliable pump is a while away.

• N1 Húsavík — 380 m · bensín 95 285.1 ISK/L · diesel 329.2
• Orkan Húsavík — 500 m · bensín 95 282.3 ISK/L · diesel 329.1
• ÓB Húsavík — 665 m · bensín 95 282.4 ISK/L · diesel 329.8
• Olís Húsavík — 665 m · bensín 95 284.6 ISK/L · diesel 331.8

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