[Talk-is] Islets south of Grindavík

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Karl Palsson <tweak at tweak.net.au> wrote:
>
> 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?

They had source=PGS so they were made by the automatic coastline
importer, so yes, in retrospects these were almost definitely
artifacts in the importing.

> 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 :)

Yeah, I've EXT-ER-MIN-ATED them! </dalek>

> 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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