Faxaflói
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right|Faxa Bay shown in blue Faxaflói (), sometimes Faxa Bay, Faxe Bay or Faxi Bay, is a bay in southwest Iceland, between the peninsulas of Snæfellsnes and Reykjanes.
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- Name
- Geography
- Islands in Faxaflói Bay near Reykjavík
- History
- References
right|Faxa Bay shown in blue Faxaflói (), sometimes Faxa Bay, Faxe Bay or Faxi Bay, is a bay in southwest Iceland, between the peninsulas of Snæfellsnes and Reykjanes.
==Name== The name Faxaflói means 'Faxi's Bay' or 'Faxe's Bay'. The first part, Faxa, is the genitive of the name Faxi or Faxe, referring to a man, on one of the first Norse boat trips to the island, the voyage of Hrafna-Flóki.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Faxaflói” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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