[3] Fáskrúðsfjörður was home to a hospital founded to serve French fishermen working here until 1935.

[4] Even nowadays there are bilingual signs in town indicating the street names in Icelandic and in French.

The French cemetery with 49 graves of fishermen from France and Belgium is another tourist attraction.

There are tour operators offering trips by boat to the small uninhabited island Skrúður which is famous for its large variety of sea birds, especially for its puffins.

[7] Vattarnesviti is an orange lighthouse on the peninsula of Vattarnes in the northeast of Fáskrúðsfjörður built in 1957.