[Talk-is] Islets south of Grindavík

[Karl Palsson]

Well, there's a few more, but none others as big as any of those that I know. 
[1] I just had a look around my map collection, and I've found these specks:

http://is.beeroclock.net/~karl/osm/possible-islets-off-grindavik.PNG

But, they could possibly be specks of dust on the original scan.  (Blame LMÍ) 
I've got another map that has an obvious hair in the sea, so it's definitely 
possible.

http://is.beeroclock.net/~karl/osm/possible-islets-off-grindavik_zoom_snip.PNG 
shows the same cluster at the native zoom of the map.  The only reason I bring 
it up are that the "big" one is coloured the same as the land, not just a black 
speck.

However, it's not coloured the same way as any islets in breiðafjörður, or 
anywhere else, so I really would lean to smudges on the original scan.

Possibly the islets you found tagged were generated by an auto finder?

http://is.beeroclock.net/~karl/osm/not_same_location_islet.png  Shows another 
"islet" in the area, but it's not the same location as the other snippet.

Unless someone wants to go for a sail, I say exterminate them :)

First two map snippets from VisIT, Iceland 1:250k, dated 1999
Third snippet is from VisIt, Iceland 1:750k, dated 1945

None of the other maps I have cover that area.

Cheers,
Karl P

[1] There's also islets off Vík, off Jökulsárlón, (Hrollaugseyja and Tvísker) 
and some off Hestgerðir, between höfn and jökulsárlón.  But yeah, none of them 
are of any meaningful size.


Þórir Tryggvason wrote:
> To my knowledge there are only "three Islands" to the south of Iceland, 
> Eldey, Surtsey and the island cluster around Heimaey. So I would presume 
> that these points are incorrect.
> 
> /Þórir
> 
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 
> <avarab at gmail.com <mailto:avarab at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     There are a few islets marked to the south of Grindavík (see
>     http://flickr.com/photos/avarab/3026464829/sizes/o/). Do they belong
>     there? I haven't seen them on any other maps and I can't see anything
>     on landsat imagery where they're located.
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