Hof | |
Pushpin Map: | Iceland |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Iceland |
Coordinates: | 63.9067°N -16.7072°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Iceland |
Subdivision Type1: | Constituency |
Subdivision Name1: | South |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Eastern Region |
Subdivision Type3: | County |
Subdivision Name3: | Austur-Skaftafellssýsla |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Elevation M: | 100 |
Timezone: | GMT |
Utc Offset: | +0 |
Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
Postal Code: | 785 |
Hof, (in Icelandic pronounced as /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]