Sea
The major harbours in Iceland are:
- Akureyri
- Hornafjördur
- Ísafjörður
- Keflavík
- Raufarhöfn
- Reykjavík
- Seyðisfjörður
- Straumsvík
- Vestmannaeyjar
Merchant marine:
total: 3 ships (with a volume of 1,000 gross register tons (GRT) or over) totaling 13,085 GRT/16,938 metric tons deadweight (DWT)
ships by type: chemical tanker 1, container ship 1, petroleum tanker 1 (1999 est.)
Transport ferries: The only habitable islands around Iceland are supplied and infrastructurally connected with the mainland via ferries which run regularly. Those islands are:
- Vestmannaeyjar The largest and most populated island.
- Hrísey In the middle of Eyjafjörður in northern Iceland.
- Grímsey An island in the far-north, the northernmost part of Iceland.
Those ferries are considered part of the infrastructure system such as roads, and are therefore run by Vegagerðin like the roads.
Read more about this topic: Transport In Iceland
Famous quotes containing the word sea:
“You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze and the boat sank.”
—J.P. (James Pinckney)
“The trumpets sound, the banners fly,
The glittering spears are ranked ready;
The shouts o’ war are heard afar,
The battle closes thick and bloody;
But it’s no the roar o’ sea or shore
Wad mak me langer wish to tarry;
Nor shout o’ war that’s heard afar,
Its leaving thee, my bonnie Mary.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“SWEENEY:
Nothing to eat but the fruit as it grows.
Nothing to see but the palmtrees one way
And the sea the other way,
Nothing to hear but the sound of the surf.
Nothing at all but three things
DORIS: What things?
SWEENEY: Birth, and copulation, and death.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)