Reyðarfjörður

Reyðarfjörður is a place on the eponymous fjord in the municipality Fjarðabyggð ( Austurland region ) in the east of Iceland.

On 1 January 2009 Reyðarfjörður had 1098 inhabitants. The place as well as the former rural community Reyðarfjörður ( Reyðarfjarðarhreppur ) belong since 7 June 1998 on the community Fjarðabyggð.

There are several museums in the city, including a war museum.

History

1998 four Faroese rowing adventurer in a rowboat Naddoddur after Reyðarfjörður, where they were enthusiastically received. Actually they wanted to sail, but because of a persistent slump they lay in the belt and dared the 240 nautical-mile tour, rather than reversing comfortable.

Reyðarfjörður had formerly known Búðareyri.

Aluminum plant

In the resort, an aluminum plant was built, although there are hardly any resources in Iceland. By being built Kárahnjúkar power plant there, however, the necessary energy. With the associated settlement of workers and their families the infrastructure project was the long -time reverse stop population decline in East Iceland. Between December 2004 and December 2006, the population rose from 692 to Reyðarfjörðurs to 2,238.

The construction of the necessary for the energy supply of the plant dam at Kárahnjúkar was the most controversial construction projects in Iceland. The building attacked massively into the nature of ostisländischen highlands. So he cut directly the change to the largest population of wild reindeer and Icelandic is also located in the area of ​​influence of active volcanoes, ie the reservoir below the columns belong to the system of Kverkfjöll.

Sons and daughters

• Vilhjálmur Einarsson ( b. 1934 in Reyðarfjörður ), Athlete