Patreksfjörður is a fishing village in the Westfjords of Iceland. It was an important fishing and trading post until the Icelandic government's introduction of a fishing quota in 1990. Administrativel

The Slaying of the Basques was the last documented massacre in Icelandic history. A party of Basque whalers went on a whaling expedition to Iceland and were killed after a conflict in 1615 with local