Not far from the Arctic Circle, at Iceland‘s northeastern tip, Fontur, the land tapers into the cold waters of the Greenland Sea. A cleft in the sheer cliffs near the lighthouse is known as Engelskagjá (“The English gorge”), after an English ship with 12 fishermen aboard slammed into it during a ferocious storm in the 18th C. The hapless fishermen managed to clamber up but all except the captain perished from exposure.
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