Ögurnes
Ögurnes is a landscape in Westfjords & Remote, Iceland — about 404 km from Reykjavik and reached by a hike from the nearest pull-off (bring weather-appropriate footwear). Shoot it during the summer window, when light, road status, and crowd levels line up for photography, then use the GPS coordinates, parking notes, and nearby waypoints below to fold this stop into a longer photography route.
Overview
A beautiful overlook of the Fjords.
As a photography stop, Ögurnes is a landscape in Westfjords & Remote, roughly 404 km from Reykjavik, reached by a hike from the nearest pull-off (bring weather-appropriate footwear). Plan the shoot during the summer window, when light, road status, and crowd levels line up for photography. The downloadable Landscape map pins exact GPS coordinates, parking, and nearby waypoints so you can fold it into a wider route instead of hunting for the pull-off on arrival.
Ögurnes is one waypoint of many — you can load all 62 landscape viewpoints before you leave signal.
Notes on this location
Compiled from published sources rather than a visit. Sources are listed below.
A point in Ísafjarðardjúp that held a fishing station and þurrabúðir — cottages of landless labourers living by fishing — into the 20th century. At Ögur behind it stand a church of 1859 and a three-storey house of 1885, among the largest built in rural Iceland.
- Ögurnes
- The Icelandic source records a verstöð (fishing station) and þurrabúðir at Ögurnes persisting into the 20th century. A þurrabúð was the dwelling of a landless labourer who lived by fishing rather than farming
- The church
- Ögurkirkja, built 1859
- The house
- Built 1885 by Jakob Rósinkarsson and Þuríður Ólafsdóttir, master builder Einar Bjarnason. Originally 18 by 14 ells, three storeys, 271 m²
- Restoration
- Minjavernd acquired it in autumn 1985, finished the exterior by 1987 and the interior as two flats by May 1993
- Where the dates differ
- General travel pages date the house to the middle of the 19th century. The heritage body holding its restoration record gives 1885; this brief follows that
Three buildings from one small settlement survive at three different scales — a church of 1859, a house of 1885 restored down to its floor plan, and a point where the labourers’ cottages have gone entirely. The last is the subject that has to be framed rather than found: what is left at Ögurnes is the ground, not the buildings.
SourcesÖgur — Wikipedia (Icelandic), Ögur — gamla íbúðarhúsið, Minjavernd
Light & aurora at this spot
Calculated from this location’s coordinates (66.037, -22.875). Iceland stays on UTC year-round, so these are local times.
- Summer
- Midnight sun in June — the sun does not set, so golden light runs for hours either side of midnight.
- Winter
- December: only 2.9 h of daylight (11:60–14:53), but the sun never climbs above 0.7° — the entire day is golden hour. Sunrise bears SSE, sunset SSW.
- Aurora
- Aurora-grade darkness Sep–Mar, peaking at 13.1 h a night in December. Not possible Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug — the sky never gets dark enough.
Bar height is daylight hours. Months marked • have enough astronomical darkness for aurora; the rest do not.
Questions & answers
Ögurnes is a landscape in Westfjords & Remote, Iceland, approximately 404 km from Reykjavik. Exact GPS coordinates are included in the downloadable Landscape map.
The recommended season for Ögurnes is Summer. For light, plan around blue hour and the first hour after sunrise; Iceland's long shoulder-season twilight extends usable conditions on either side.
Hike access. Bring weather-appropriate footwear and check conditions before setting out. The downloadable GPS map puts the waypoint on your phone; your own app routes you to it from wherever you are.
Ögurnes is best visited during Summer. Outside that window, expect limited access, weather closures, or significantly different photographic conditions.