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12 unusual facts about Vestmannaeyjar


Á Móti Sól

In August 2007, the band was a headliner at Þjóðhátíð, one of Iceland's most popular music festivals, in Vestmannaeyjar, and performed before a crowd of nearly 50,000 on the main stage at the annual Menningarnótt (Reykjavik Culture Night) festival.

Ásgeir Sigurvinsson

Ásgeir "Sigi" Sigurvinsson (born 8 May 1955 in Vestmannaeyjar) is an Icelandic football coach and a former player.

Birkir Kristinsson

He started his career with local Vestmannaeyjar team ÍBV, and also played with Einherji from Vopnafjordur, KA from Akureyri, ÍA and Fram in the Icelandic league before moving to Norway with SK Brann in 1996, where he is still considered as a hero, after his efforts in the cup winner's cup in 1997, where SK Brann reached the quarter finals.

Guðmundur Torfason

Guðmundur "Gunni" Torfason (born 13 December 1961 in Vestmannaeyjar) is a retired Icelandic footballer.

Guðni Jónsson

He began a career as a teacher at a primary school in the Vestmannaeyjar in winter 1926–27, taught evening school himself in Reykjavík in 1927–28, taught at the Commercial College of Iceland in 1928–29, and then taught at Reykvíking Middle School from 1928 until 1945, when he became headmaster.

Heimir Hallgrímsson

From 1996 until 2007 he played lower league football with another club from Vestmannaeyjar, from 1996 to 1997 he played with Smástund and from 1998 with KFS, the merged team of Smástund and another lower league team from Vestmannaeyjar called Framherjar.

Heimir Hallgrímsson (born 10 June 1967 in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland) is an Icelandic football manager and former player, currently managing Iceland jointly with Lars Lagerbäck, having previously been his assistant manager with Iceland.

Högna Sigurðardóttir

Shortly after graduating in 1960, she designed a residential building in the Westman Islands, so becoming the first woman to design a building in Iceland.

Ingólfr Arnarson

Ingólfr hunted them down and killed them in the Westman Islands (Vestmannaeyjar, named after the slaves).

Oregon Coast Aquarium

The aquarium was home to Keiko, the orca who starred in the movie Free Willy, from January 1996 until September 9, 1998, when he was shipped to Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland.

Sigla himinfley

The series takes place in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, and follows the lives of an influential family in the fishing industry.

Þórarinn Ingi Valdimarsson

Valdimarsson was born and raised in the small town of Vestmannaeyjar, and got his debut for Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja (ÍBV) in 2007 and played 12 games for the team in the 1. deild karla.


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Framhaldsskólinn í Vestmannaeyjum

The school is also currently used as the teaching facility for the Vestmannaeyjar department of the University of Iceland and has hosted many remote lectures, to Ísafjörður and Bíldudalur as well as a few other countries.

Helgi Ólafsson

A native of Heimaey, the largest and sole populated island in the Vestmannaeyjar Westmen Isles archipelago off the south coast of Iceland, Helgi was sixteen when the Bobby FischerBoris Spassky World Chess Championship 1972, dubbed the chess world's "Match of the Century", was held in Reykjavík.