Þingeyrar (Thingøre in some older texts) is a farm in

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

's Northwestern Region. It lies adjacent to the sandy

coastal plain A coastal plain (also coastal plains, coastal lowland, coastal lowlands) is an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast. A fall line commonly marks the border between a coastal plain and an upland area. Formation Coastal plains can f ...

of Þingeyrasandur (or Thingøresand), between the

Skagi Skagi is the name of the peninsula between Húnaflói and Skagafjörður, which derives its name from Skagi. There used to be three municipalities in Skagi; two were and , now named Húnabyggð and Skagaströnd, on the western side, which bel ...

and

Vatnsnes Vatnsnes () is a peninsula jutting into Húnaflói in northern Iceland. It is surrounded by waters of Miðfjörður on the west and Húnafjörður on the east. It is home to one of the largest seal colonies in Iceland, among others at Hindisví ...

peninsulas and just northeast of lake Hóp. Þingeyrar was formerly the location of the famous convent

Þingeyraklaustur Þingeyraklaustur was a monastery of the Order of Saint Benedict located in Þingeyrar on Iceland from 1133 until 1551. It was the first monastery in Iceland and probably the last to be closed by the Icelandic Reformation. History The monastery ...

(1133–1551). It is also the site of Iceland's first stone church, Þingeyrakirkja. Icelandic scholar and politician Björn M. Ólsen (1850–1919) was born in Þingeyrar. Bjarni Halldórsson (–1773), an Icelandic legal figure and theologian, spent most of his life in Þingeyrar. One of the earliest recorded

giant squid The giant squid (''Architeuthis dux'') is a species of deep-ocean dwelling squid A squid (: squid) is a mollusc with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight cephalopod limb, arms, and two tentacles in the orders Myopsida, Oegopsida, ...

(''Architeuthis dux'') specimens was found washed ashore on Þingeyrasandur in 1639.Volsøe, A., J. Knudsen & W. Rees (1962). ''The cephalopod papers of Japetus Steenstrup; a translation into English''. Danish Science Press, Copenhagen. 330 pp.Sweeney, M.J. & C.F.E. Roper (2001)
Records of ''Architeuthis'' Specimens from Published Reports
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. 132 pp.

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