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Hof, Iceland

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Country
  
Iceland

Region
  
Eastern Region

Post Code
  
785

Municipality
  
Hornafjörður

Constituency
  
South

Time zone
  
GMT (UTC+0)

Elevation
  
100 m

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County
  
Austur-Skaftafellssýsla

Hof, in Öræfi, is a cluster of farms in the municipality of Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður in southeast Iceland, close to Vatnajökull glacier, and twenty two kilometres south of Skaftafell in Vatnajökull National Park. It is located on the Route 1 southwest of Höfn, in the narrow strip between the sea coast and the glacier.

Map of Hof, Iceland

A notаble building in Hof is a turf church, which was built in 1883 and is the youngest turf church in Iceland. Since 1951, it belongs to the National Museum of Iceland.

References

Hof, Iceland Wikipedia