Þórshöfn

Þórshöfn (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈθour̥sˌhœpn̥]) or Thorshofn is a small fishing village in northeast Iceland, located on the northern coast of the Langanes peninsula on the Þistilfjörður bay.

Þórshöfn is also the Icelandic name of Tórshavn (capital of the Faroe Islands).

The climate is arctic (Koppen: ET) with cold winters and cool summers.

Sauðanes, a farm about seven kilometres north of Þórshöfn on Langanes peninsula, has a church built in 1889 and a parsonage (Sauðaneshús) dating from 1879 which was the first stone building in the Northeastern part of Iceland.

[2] The church doors were made of driftwood, and the winged altarpiece dates from 1742.

Þórshöfn in Iceland