Kirkjubæjarklaustur

The village Kirkjubæjarklaustur is a village in the south of Iceland on the hringvegur between Vík í Mýrdal and Höfn. It is part of the municipality of Skaftárhreppur and has about 120 inhabitants.

The Skaftárhreppur district, the eastern part of West Skaftafellssýsla, stretches from the river Blautakvísl at Mýrdalssandur in the west, to the Sandgígjukvísl river at Skeiðarársandur in the east. The district derives  its name from the Skaftá river, which rises beneath the Skaftárjökull glacier and flows down to the sea at Veiðiós and Kúðaós.

Klausturvegur 10 880 Kirkjubæjarklaustur

+354 487 4840

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