Langanes Peninsula

Langanes — the name means 'long peninsula' — is a narrow, 45-kilometre finger of land reaching into the North Atlantic beyond the harbour town of Þórshöfn. On the map it looks like a goose's head. It is one of Iceland's emptiest corners: treeless moor and low hills, ringed by high sea cliffs and barely inhabited. A single gravel track runs to a white lighthouse at Fontur, the very tip, past huge seabird cliffs and the ruins of Skálar, a fishing village abandoned in the 1940s.