Iceland, June 2013

A series of panoramas captured during a brief trip to the South West and North West of Iceland, during the long summer days and nights of June 2013.

Joby Catto
Between the concrete herring oil tanks at Djúpavík, Iceland
Standing between the enormous concrete tanks which used to hold thousands of gallons of processed fish oil when Djúpavík was a working herring processing plant in the 1930 and 1940s.The concrete is slowly decaying but each of the tanks are still a...
Joby Catto
Inside an Antonov AN-2 biplane at Hnjótur Museum, Örlygshöfn, Vestfirðir, Iceland
The aircraft in this view is an ex-Aeroflot Antonov An-2, a venerable Russian workhorse which was famed for its rugged build, extremely short take-off and landing capability, and almost zero tendency to stall. This one was supposedly abandoned in ...
Joby Catto
Climbing Tröllatunguheiði, Vesturland, Iceland
Climbing the long road over Tröllatunguheiði on the drive over the moors to Holmavik in the West Fjords region of Iceland, under a clear bright summer sky.
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Memorial to trawlers and their crews, Hnjótur Museum, Örlygshöfn, Barðastrandarsýsla, Vestfirðir
Memorial built by Egill Ólafsson and Kristinn Thor Egilsson in 1998 at Hnjotur to honour the sailors who lost their lives in the seas around Látrabjarg and westernmost cliffs and fjords of Iceland in the twentieth century, as well as the brave loc...
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View 3 of ex-US Navy C-117D at Hnjótur, Örlygshöfn, Iceland
The C-117D was a US Navy / US Marine Corps variant of the venerable C-47 (itself the military version of the classic DC-3 Dakota). This example was previously based at Keflavik, before being decommissioned and ending up at the museum at Hnjótur in...
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View 2 inside a decommissioned US Navy C-117D, Iceland
The C-117D was a US Navy / US Marine Corps variant of the venerable C-47 (itself the military version of the classic DC-3 Dakota). This example was previously based at Keflavik, before being decommissioned and ending up at the museum at Hnjótur in...
Joby Catto
Route 1 just before midnight, crossing Sólheimasandur in Suðurland, Iceland
Standing in the middle of Route 1 (Þjóðvegur 1) a few minutes before midnight, just east of the bridge crossing the Jökulsá river between Skógasandur and Sólheimasandur. There wasn't much traffic to dodge, even on Iceland's main road, allowing eno...