Reyðarfjörður

Swirling winds of premonition hammer the hulls that cast adrift on the rising sea. In staggered formation, the undulating coast harbors a nebulous storm above the tin tastes of corrosion in the salty air. Frozen pressure shatters the scoured land, unearthing reverberations that ricochet across the cursed fjord.

Extreme Currents

Reyðarfjörður is the widest and longest fjord in the Eastfjords, at over 30km long. Fjords are deep, u-shaped valleys formed by glaciers as they alter the landscape. The inland side of a fjord is often the deepest, where the strength of the glacier was most powerful, causing overdeepening. As a result, most fjords are often deeper than the surrounding seafloor and have a rise in the seafloor near the mouth, causing extreme currents.

Mystical Peninsula

Carved by ancient glaciers, Hólmanes Nature Reserve is home to diverse plants and animals including birds, mink, arctic fox, dolphins, wild reindeer, and over 150 species of vegetation. It is also believed to be a location where elves reside.

Dynamic Weather

Weather in Iceland is often extreme and can change at any moment. Sometimes the weather changes so often it will transition between all four seasons in a single day. The reason for such extreme and unpredictable weather is the island's location between the warm Atlantic air of the Gulf stream in from the south and cool Arctic air from the north.

Frost Shattering

Skerries or small rocky islands formed by glaciers, are often found at the outlet of fjords. Many of these are also roche moutonnées, or whalebacks. Smoothed and scared in the direction of the glacier which once flowed over it. As water seeps into cracks and freezes in the rock, the rock becomes attached to the glacier. The forward momentum of the glacier eventually leads to frost shattering, where the glacier rips away pieces of the rock from the lee side, leaving a shape which resembles a whale's back.

Foreign Occupation

During WWII, British Allied troops made Reyðarfjörður their second largest base in Iceland, outnumbering locals 10 to 1. Over 50 years later, an American company built an aluminum smelter, employing thousands of workers from all over the world. At one point, Reyðarfjörður had the largest concentration of foreign residents in Iceland.

Safe Harbor

Due to the landscape of surrounding mountains and long narrow channel, fjords are often well protected from severe weather. This topography makes them perfect harbors as well as fish and other marine life.

White Witch

According to legend, under a cairn at the top of Hólmatindur, is the final resting place of a "White Witch" or "seeress". In Viking society, a seeress had the unique ability to see the future. This seeress vowed to protect both Reyðarfjörður and Eskifjörður from invasion, as long as her bones do not decay and her cairn maintained.