Dyrhólaey

63° 27 N 

19° 06 W

 

• Kirkjufjara

 

 

• Lighthouse
  
  The very first lighthouse was built on Dyrhólaey in 1910. The present lighthouse was built in 1927, and the building materials were transported by boat to the port Dyrhólahöfn and pulled up onto the promontory along a cable from the shore. The lighthouse is quite a large construction, three-storeys high. During the first decades after the lighthouse was built, the lighthouse keeper had a sheepcote and a barn not far from the lighthouse, and around the houses he grew grass and made hay.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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