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(Strandgata 96;mains Ikr2590-3390; noon-9pm Jun-Aug or by appointment)
This extraordinary boathouse dates from 1890, and when new owners entered it in 2008,
they found it untouched for 80-odd years. The upstairs sleeping quarters of the fishermen
has remained as it was found; downstairs is an atmospheric restaurant among the maritime
memorabilia. Unsurprisingly, the tasty menu is heavy on fish (including local specialities:
shark and dried fish).
Contact Mjóeyri to see inside the boathouse outside opening hours (Ikr1000); it also ar-
ranges rental of motorboats and fishing rods from here.
Neskaupstaður (Norðfjörður)
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Just getting to Neskaupstaður feels like a real odyssey. You travel via the highest highway
pass (632m) in Iceland, through a nerve-wracking, single-lane, 630m-long tunnel, then
drop from the skies like a falcon into town; attempt to drive further east and you simply
run out of road. Although it's one of the largest of the fjord towns, this dramatic end-of-
the-line location makes it feel small and far away from the rest of the world. (This may
change when a new 8km tunnel from Eskifjörður opens in 2017, superseding the old
route.)
As with most towns in the Eastfjords, Neskaupstaður began life as a 19th-century trad-
ing centre and prospered during the herring boom in the early 20th century. Its future was
assured by the building of the biggest fish-processing and freezing plant in Iceland, Síl-
darvinnslan (SNV), at the head of the fjord.
Sights & Activities
Safnahúsið MUSEUM
(Egilsbraut 2;adult/child Ikr1000/free; 1-5pm Jun-Aug)
Three collections are clustered together in one bright-red harbourfront warehouse, known
as 'Museum House'. Tryggvasafn showcases a collection of striking paintings by promin-
ent modern artist Tryggvi Ólafsson, born in Neskaupstaður in 1940. Upstairs, the Mari-
time Museum is one man's collection of artefacts relating to the sea, while on the top
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