Vestmannaeyjar

Westman Islands


Vestmannaeyjar is one of the few names in Iceland which are rather easy to pronounce by English speakers, nevertheless, the name is sometimes anglicized as Westman Islands. It is a municipality and archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. This is not a region, actually it belongs to the Southern Region (Suðurland), but as it is an archipelago and thus requires a ferry to get there we listed it separately. It is very young as it formed by eruptions over the past 12,000 years. As a result there are numerous lava tubes.