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Heimaey

Southern Region · Iceland

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Heimaey, Iceland
Photo: Aerial_view_of_the_Westmen_Isles,_2009-02-01.jpg: Bruce McAdam Camera location62° 55′ 41.37″ N, 20° 27′ 25.92″ W View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap 62.928158; -20.457200 derivative work: Teofilo (talk), CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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May to August
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The only inhabited island of Iceland's Westman archipelago, reshaped by a 1973 eruption that buried part of its town in lava and ash. Puffins nest in the hundreds of thousands on its steep sea cliffs each summer.

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