Almenningur
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Patch of lava field in Vatnsleysustrond county. Located between two lava fields Kapelluhraun and Afstappahraun. It came from ...
Arnarsetur, (The Eagle's Nest)
East of the road to town Grindavik
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Arnarsetur is row of craters near the town Grindavík.It is the youngest lava file in the area and over all the landscape is mosly covered by a ...
Birdlife
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On the Krýsuvíkurberg and Hafnaberg cliffs, thousands of seabirds nest each summer. The most common are guillemot, ...
Bridge Between Continents
About 7km south of Hafnir by road 425
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Bridge between Europe and North America on Reykjanes Peninsula.   The lava-scarred Reykjanes peninsula lies on one of the world's major plate ...
Brimketill
Near Staðarberg, west of Grindavík
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A lavarock formation on the coast near Staðarberg, west of Grindavík. Brimketill is one of Reykjanes region's most popular natural ...
Cove Sandvik
South of Hafnir and Hafnarberg
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Cove Sandvik, south of the Hafnarberg Cliffs, is a popular recreational area of the passers by travelling through the southwesternmost part of the ...
Eldey
Southwest of Reykjanes
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A sheer 77 metre high rock protruding out of the sea. It is about 15 km to the south of the southwestern most tip of the Reykjanes peninsula.The ...
Eldvörp (Eldvorp)
Northwest of Grindavik
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Eldvorp is a 10 km long crater row to the northwest of Grindavik. It has several big craters with extensive thermal activity within and outside one ...
Geitahlid
South of Kleifarvatn, by road 427
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A table mountain just east of farm Krysuvik.  Geitahlíð is both a doleritie shield volcano and a table mountain. It is 386 metres ...
Gunnuhver
East of Reykjaneslighthouse
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The mud pools and steam vents on the southwest part of Reykjanes. The area is close to Reykjanes lighthouse and is collectively named Gunnuhver ...
Hafnarberg - Sea-cliffs
4 km from Hafnir
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Hoskuldarvellir
3km east of Keilir
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Hoskuldarvellir is a green spot in the lava field to the west of the shield volcano Trolladyngja on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Southwest Iceland. A ...
Hrafnagja
From Vatnsleysuvík and soutwest of Strandarheiði
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The rift, Hrafnagjá is the longest at Reykjanes Peninsula, nearly 12 km. It is a long broken lava fissure located between Stóra ...
Kapelluhraun
etween the town Hafnarfiord and Cove Straumsvik
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The rugged and barren Chapel Lava Field or the New Lava Field spreads between the town Hafnarfiord and Cove Straumsvik.  According to ...
Keilir
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Keilir is a hyaloclastite mountain. It was created during subglacial eruptions during the ice age. It´s shape makes it distinctive and ...
Keilisnes
8km north of Vogar, northest point of Þráinsskjaldarhraun
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Keilisnes is a spit of land between the coves Flekkuvik and Kalfatjorn. On the Cairn Mound near the old main road stands a cairn called Stefansvarda. ...
Kleifarvatn
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Lake between Sveifluháls and Vatnshlíð.  The lake Kleifarvatn is about 10 km². It is the largest of Reykjanes ...
Krýsuvík
By road 42. 1km west of Grænavatn which is 3km south-west of Kleifarvatn
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Popular recreational destination with many interesing hiking paths.  Columns of steam rise skywards, bubbling mud pools play their rhythmical ...
Kuagerdi
Vatnsleysuvik
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A green patch near a pond next to the old route at the southern edge of Afstapahraun which is a lava field up of Vatnsleysuvík. Reykjanesbraut ...
Mt Fagradalsfjall
In the center of Reykjanes Peninsula, north-east of Grindavik
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Mt Fagradalsfjall, the westernmost part of the mountain ridge of the Reykjanes Peninsula, is really a small plateau. Some hyalocaslite ridges ...
Mt Stapafell
Southeast of the village Hafnir
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Mt Stapafell is a hyaloclastite mountain on the Reykjanes Peninsula to the southeast of the village Hafnir. It is mostly made of pillow lava. ...
Mt Thorbjorn
North of Grindavik
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A free standing, hyaloclastite mountain north of Grindavik. It offers great panoramic view over most of the Reykjanes Peninsula on fine days. The ...
Northern lights - Aurora Borealis
Nature
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Auroras are associated with the solar wind, a flow of ions continuously flowing outward from the sun.  The Earth´s magnetic field traps these ...
Ogmundarhraun
West of Krysuvik
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A lava flow formed in an eruption in the year 1151 AD. In that year a 25 km long fissure opened obliquely acorss the Reykjanes peninsula. The lava ...
Stakksfjordur
South-west of Faxaflói. The towns Reykjanesbær and Vogar are located by this fjord.
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This is a deep southern inlet of the big Faxi Bay between spit Keilisnes in the east and the Stakkur Peak of the Holmur Cliff in the west.  The ...
Strandarheidi
South of Vatnsleysuströnd
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The Strandarheidi is also called Vatnsleysustrandarheidi. This area comprises of barren lava fields inland from the Vatnsleysa Coast. Originally it ...
Sveifluhals
West of Lake Kleifarvatn
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A lava flow formed in an eruption in the year 1151 AD. In that year a 25 km long fissure opened obliquely across the Reykjanes peninsula. The lava ...
Thrainsskjoldur
North-east of Mt. Fagradalsfjall
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Thrainsskjoldur is an extensive lava mound north of Mt Fagradalsfjall. There are no resent remains of volcanic activity on its top, but vast lava ...
Trolladyngja
4km east of Keilir. Drive road 41
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Two hyaloclastite mountains north of Núpshlíð or Vesturhálsi. Grænadyngja is between ...
Vogastapi
Between Vogar and Njardvik
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Vogastapi was named "The Heifer Cove Cliff", later "The Cove Cliff" and sometimes just "The Cliff" by the inhabitants of the area. It is an 80 m. ...