Hof, Iceland

Hof
Wood and turf church at Hof.
Hof Location in Iceland
Coordinates: 63°54′24″N 16°42′26″W
Country	Iceland
Constituency	South
Region	Eastern Region
County	Austur-Skaftafellssýsla
Municipality	Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður
Elevation	300 ft (100 m)
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)
Post Code	785

Hof, (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈhɔːf]) in Öræfi, is a cluster of farms in the municipality of Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður in southeast Iceland, close to Vatnajökull glacier, and twenty two kilometres south of Skaftafell in Vatnajökull National Park. It is on the Route 1 southwest of Höfn, in the narrow strip between the sea coast and the glacier.

It is 9.14 km WSW of the centre of Öræfajökull volcano.

A notable building in Hof is a turf church, which was built in 1883 and is the youngest turf church in Iceland. Since 1951, it belongs to the National Museum of Iceland.^[1]

References

Media related to Hof í Öræfum at Wikimedia Commons

1. Iceland Road Guide (12th ed.). Reykjavik: Vegahandbokin. 2011. p. 120. ISBN 9789979999225.