Almenningur
Vatnsleysustrond
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Almenningar is a patch of lava fields between the lava fields Kapelluhraun and Afstapahraun in the Vatnsleysustrond County. This area was formerly ...
Arnarsetur, (The Eagle's Nest)
East of the road to town Grindavik
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ArnarseturArnarsetur (The Eagle's Nest) is a crater row just east of the road to town Grindavik, and south of the mound Vogastapi. A shield volcano ...
Birdlife
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On the Krýsuvíkurberg and Hafnaberg cliffs, thousands of seabirds nest each summer. The most common are guillemot, razorbill,Brünnich's guillemot, ...
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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Eldey is a sheer 77 metre high rock protruding out of the sea about 15 km to the south of the southwestern most tip of the Reykjanes peninsula.The ...
Eldvorp
Northwest of Grindavik
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Eldvorp is a 10 km long crater row to the northwest of Grindavik with several big craters with extensive thermal activity within and outside one of ...
Geitahlid
South of Kleifarvatn, by road 427
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Geitahlid is a dolerite shield volcano, a table mountain, 386 metres high on the southern edge of the Reykjanes Mountain Ridge just east of farm ...
Gunnuhver
East of Reykjaneslighthouse
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The mud pools and steam vents on the southwest part of Reykjanes close to Reykjanes lighthouse are collectively named Gunnuhver after a female ghost ...
Hafnaberg - Sea-cliffs
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Hafnaberg is a low, sheer cliff a short distance south of the fishing hamlet Hafnir.  It is an interesting and a popular spot among bird ...
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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Hrafnagja is a 12 km long, but broken lava fissure between Stora Vatnsleysa to the Vogastapi Mound. The deepest part of the fissure, close to the ...
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 according to ...
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
Lake Kleifarvatn is the largest lake of the Reykjanes peninsula.
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Lake Kleifarvatn is the largest lake of the Reykjanes peninsula. It is the third largest lake of southern Iceland, 9,1 km², and one of the ...
Krýsuvík
By road 42. 1km west of Grænavatn which is 3km south-west of Kleifarvatn
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The Krýsuvík geothermal area is a popular recreational destination, with many interesting hiking paths. Columns of steam rise skywards, bubbling mud ...
Kuagerdi
Vatnsleysuvik
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Kuagerdi (Cow Grazings) is a green patch on the old route at the southern edge of the lava field Afstapahraun on the cove Vatnsleysuvik.  It was ...
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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Mt Thorbjor (Thorbjarnarfell) is a free standing, hyaloclastite mountain north of Grindavik. It offers great panoramic view over most of 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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Ogmundarhraun is a relatively small lava field to the south of Ridge Nupshlidarhals (Vesturhals).  Its westernmost part is called Ogmundarhraun ...
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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Sveifluhals or Austurhals is a hyaloclastite ridge (395m) on the Reykjanes Peninsula in the southwestern part of the country to the west of Lake ...
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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Trolladyngja is a hyaloclastite mountains to the north of Ridge Nupshlidarhals. Between this ridge and shield volcano Trolladyngja is the shield ...
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. ...