Hafnir

Hafnir
Hafnir
Town
	Hafnir
	Location of the Municipality of Reykjanesbaer
	Hafnir Location in Iceland
	Coordinates: 63°56′N 22°41′W
Country	Iceland
Constituency	South Constituency
Region	Southern Peninsula[1]
Municipality	Reykjanesbær
Population (2011)
• Total	109
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
Website	Official website

Hafnir (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈhapnɪr̥]) is a village in southwestern Iceland.

It is situated in the Reykjanes peninsula and has 109 inhabitants (as of 2011).

In 1994 the inhabitants of Hafnir, Njarðvík and Keflavík agreed to form a municipality called Reykjanesbær with a population of 20,416 (July 2022).

A cabin in Hafnir abandoned between 770 and 880 provides the earliest known archaeological evidence of settlement in Iceland.[2]

In 1881, the American ship Jamestown ran aground off Hafnir with no one aboard. Its cargo of timber was salvaged and sold off. The ship's anchor is on display outside the village church.

References

Formerly named Reykjanes
"New View on the Origin of First Settlers in Iceland". Iceland Review Online. 4 June 2011. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2012.

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[1] Formerly named Reykjanes

[2] "New View on the Origin of First Settlers in Iceland". Iceland Review Online. 4 June 2011. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2012.