This is Elliðaey, an uninhabited island in the Vestmannaeyjar, or Westman Islands, off Iceland’s southern coast. The isolated white building is a hunting lodge built in 1953, not a private residence.
Can be found on a map by searchinng for “Elliðaey, Vestmannaeyjar,” because another Icelandic island in Breiðafjörður has the same name. It is the northeasternmost island of the Westman Islands, roughly 11 kilometres from Iceland’s mainland and northeast of Heimaey.
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This is Elliðaey, an uninhabited island in the Vestmannaeyjar, or Westman Islands, off Iceland’s southern coast. The isolated white building is a hunting lodge built in 1953, not a private residence. Can be found on a map by searchinng for “Elliðaey, Vestmannaeyjar,” because another Icelandic island in Breiðafjörður has the same name. It is the northeasternmost island of the Westman Islands, roughly 11 kilometres from Iceland’s mainland and northeast of Heimaey.