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href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey_(pulo_sa_Islandya,_Su%C3%B0urland)" title="Heimaey (pulo sa Islandya, Suðurland) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Heimaey (pulo sa Islandya, Suðurland)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C" title="هیمایی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="هیمایی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%97%A4%EC%9D%B4%EB%A7%88%EC%97%90%EC%9D%B4%EC%84%AC" title="헤이마에이섬 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="헤이마에이섬" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%87_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%89" title="جزيره هيماى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جزيره هيماى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E5%B3%B6" title="ヘイマエイ島 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ヘイマエイ島" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%8D%D0%B9" title="Хеймаэй – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Хеймаэй" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey" title="Heimaey – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Heimaey" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hem%C3%B6n" title="Hemön – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Hemön" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" 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Looking north-east</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Vestmannaeyjar_archipelago_topographic_map-en.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Vestmannaeyjar_archipelago_topographic_map-en.svg/260px-Vestmannaeyjar_archipelago_topographic_map-en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Vestmannaeyjar_archipelago_topographic_map-en.svg/390px-Vestmannaeyjar_archipelago_topographic_map-en.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Vestmannaeyjar_archipelago_topographic_map-en.svg/520px-Vestmannaeyjar_archipelago_topographic_map-en.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="426" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Geography</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Heimaey&params=63_26_N_20_16_W_region:IS_type:isle"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">63°26′N</span> <span class="longitude">20°16′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">63.433°N 20.267°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">63.433; -20.267</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Archipelago</th><td class="infobox-data note"><a href="/wiki/Vestmannaeyjar" title="Vestmannaeyjar">Vestmannaeyjar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Total islands</th><td class="infobox-data">15</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">13.4 km<sup>2</sup> (5.2 sq mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highest elevation</th><td class="infobox-data">200 m (700 ft)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highest point</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heimaklettur_(volcano)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heimaklettur (volcano) (page does not 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title="Helgafell (volcano)">Helgafell</a>, looking north-west</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Heimaey</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Icelandic pronunciation:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="is-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Icelandic" title="Help:IPA/Icelandic">[ˈheiːmaˌeiː]</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/9\/98\/Heimaey_pronunciation.ogg\/Heimaey_pronunciation.ogg.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"Heimaey pronunciation.ogg"},"classes":["ext-phonos-PhonosButton","noexcerpt","ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/98/Heimaey_pronunciation.ogg/Heimaey_pronunciation.ogg.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"><span class="oo-ui-iconElement-icon oo-ui-icon-volumeUp"></span><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label"></span><span class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:Heimaey_pronunciation.ogg" title="File:Heimaey pronunciation.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>), is an <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Icelandic</a> island. At 13.4 square kilometres (5.2 sq mi), it is the largest island in the <a href="/wiki/Vestmannaeyjar" title="Vestmannaeyjar">Vestmannaeyjar</a> archipelago, and the largest and most populated island off the Icelandic coast. Heimaey is 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) off the south coast of <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a>. It is the only populated island of the Vestmannaeyjar islands, with a population of 4,414.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Vestmannaeyjar_Airport" title="Vestmannaeyjar Airport">Vestmannaeyjar Airport</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Westman_Islands_Golf_Club" title="Westman Islands Golf Club">Westman Islands Golf Club</a> taken together cover a good portion of the island. </p><p>In January 1973, lava flow from nearby <a href="/wiki/Eldfell" title="Eldfell">Eldfell</a> destroyed half the town and threatened to close its harbour, its main income source. An operation to cool the advancing lava with sea water saved the harbour. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heimaey&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_settlers">First settlers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heimaey&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: First settlers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In tradition, Herjólfur Bárðarson was said to be the first person to settle in Heimaey. According to the <i>Landnáma</i>, he built his farm in Herjólfsdalur (literally: Herjólf's valley) about 900. The <a href="/wiki/Archaeological" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaeological">archaeological</a> excavation in 1971 of ancient ruins in Herjólfsdalur revealed that there had been settlement nearly 100 years earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Turkish_raid">Turkish raid</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heimaey&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Turkish raid"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1627, three Arab pirate ships from the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a>-controlled <a href="/wiki/Barbary_Coast" title="Barbary Coast">Barbary Coast</a> <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Abductions" title="Turkish Abductions">raided</a> several towns on the south coast of Iceland and outlying islands.<sup id="cite_ref-Tinniswood_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tinniswood-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They attacked <a href="/wiki/Grindav%C3%ADk" title="Grindavík">Grindavík</a> and Heimaey. In Grindavík, townspeople could flee into the lava field of Reykjanes and hide indefinitely. Heimaey was so isolated that it was vulnerable and people suffered. Many heroic stories were told of the people who survived the invasion, most notably <a href="/wiki/Gu%C3%B0r%C3%AD%C3%B0ur_S%C3%ADmonard%C3%B3ttir" title="Guðríður Símonardóttir">Guðríður Símonardóttir</a>. Better known as Tyrkja-Gudda (Turkish-Gudda), she was taken by the pirates from her home at Stakkagerði on Heimaey to the slave market in <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a>. She was eventually ransomed back to Denmark by King <a href="/wiki/Christian_IV_of_Denmark" title="Christian IV of Denmark">Christian IV of Denmark</a> and was re-educated by and later married the poet <a href="/wiki/Hallgr%C3%ADmur_P%C3%A9tursson" title="Hallgrímur Pétursson">Hallgrímur Pétursson</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Hallgr%C3%ADmskirkja" title="Hallgrímskirkja">Hallgrímskirkja</a> <a href="/wiki/Lutheran" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran">Lutheran</a> church in <a href="/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk" title="Reykjavík">Reykjavík</a> is named in his honour. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Eldfell">Eldfell</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heimaey&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Eldfell"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eldfell_eruption_en.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Eldfell_eruption_en.svg/220px-Eldfell_eruption_en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Eldfell_eruption_en.svg/330px-Eldfell_eruption_en.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Eldfell_eruption_en.svg/440px-Eldfell_eruption_en.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="717" data-file-height="721" /></a><figcaption>Sketch showing the changes to Heimaey caused by the eruption of Eldfell</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Eldfell" title="Eldfell">Eldfell</a></div> <p>At 01:00 on 23 January 1973, a volcanic eruption of the mountain <a href="/wiki/Eldfell" title="Eldfell">Eldfell</a> began on Heimaey. The ground on Heimaey started to quake and <a href="/wiki/Fissure_vent" title="Fissure vent">fissures</a> formed. The fissures grew to 1,600 metres (5,200 ft) in length, and <a href="/wiki/Lava" title="Lava">lava</a> began to erupt. Lava sprayed into the air from the fissures. Volcanic ash was blown to sea. Later, the situation deteriorated. When the fissures closed, the eruption converted to a concentrated lava flow that headed toward the harbour. The winds changed, and half a million cubic metres of ash blew on the town. During the night, the 5,000 inhabitants of the island were evacuated, mostly by fishing boats, as almost the entire fishing fleet was in dock. </p><p>The encroaching lava flow threatened to destroy the harbour. The eruption lasted until 3 July. Icelanders sprayed the lava with six million tons of cold seawater, causing some to solidify and much to be diverted, thus saving the harbour.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the eruption, half of the town was crushed and the island expanded in length. The eruption increased the area of Heimaey from 11.2 km<sup>2</sup> (4.3 sq mi) to 13.44 km<sup>2</sup> (5.19 sq mi). Only one man died in the eruption.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McPhee_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McPhee-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The eruption is described by <a href="/wiki/John_McPhee" title="John McPhee">John McPhee</a> in his book <a href="/wiki/The_Control_of_Nature_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Control of Nature (book)"><i>The Control of Nature</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-McPhee_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McPhee-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Present_day">Present day</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heimaey&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Present day"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Heimaey is home to around 4,500 people, and eight million <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_puffin" title="Atlantic puffin">puffins</a> every summer.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many millions of other birds migrate there for breeding and feeding. </p><p>The island is connected to the rest of Iceland by a ferry and <a href="/wiki/Vestmannaeyjar_Airport" title="Vestmannaeyjar Airport">Vestmannaeyjar Airport</a>. </p><p>Most people on the island live off fishing. During an annual festival, people are allowed to catch a few puffins to share at the festival, or to eat at home. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heimaey&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Heimaey" title="Special:EditPage/Heimaey">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Heimaey%22">"Heimaey"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Heimaey%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Heimaey%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Heimaey%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Heimaey%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Heimaey%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">August 2020</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>Some final shots of Chris Marker's film <i><a href="/wiki/Sans_Soleil" title="Sans Soleil">Sans Soleil</a></i> are of stark white Heimaey houses slowly buried by the deep black volcanic ash of the eruption. The backdrop reveals splashes of red lava as it flows into a steel-grey sea.</li> <li>Heimaey is mentioned in the song <a href="/wiki/Leviathan_(Mastodon_album)" title="Leviathan (Mastodon album)">"Island"</a> by American progressive-metal band <a href="/wiki/Mastodon_(band)" title="Mastodon (band)">Mastodon</a>. The line is "Lava goddess, Ice and fire, Settling down, Ocean Geysir, Gullfoss, Heimaey 73." This refers to the eruption of <a href="/wiki/Eldfell" title="Eldfell">Eldfell</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keiko_(orca)" title="Keiko (orca)">Keiko</a> the whale from the <i><a href="/wiki/Free_Willy_(franchise)" title="Free Willy (franchise)">Free Willy</a></i> films was in real life flown to Klettsvik Bay on Heimaey as his final home before being freed.</li> <li><i>Ashes to Dust</i> by <a href="/wiki/Yrsa_Sigur%C3%B0ard%C3%B3ttir" title="Yrsa Sigurðardóttir">Yrsa Sigurðardóttir</a> (2007, English Translation 2011), the third of her murder mysteries set in Iceland, is largely set on Heimaey and focuses round the Eldfell eruption of 1973, and discoveries resulting from excavation, more than 30 years later, of a house buried in the volcanic ash.</li> <li>Heimaey features in <a href="/wiki/Bruce_McMillan" title="Bruce McMillan">Bruce McMillan</a>'s photo-illustrated children book <i><a href="/wiki/Nights_of_the_Pufflings" title="Nights of the Pufflings">Nights of the Pufflings</a></i> (1995). In the story a tradition of rescuing young birds, <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_puffin" title="Atlantic puffin">pufflings</a>, by local children is told. The pufflings take their first flight on August nights, and get accidentally stranded in the village streets. The children then set them free at the beach at daytime.</li> <li>The 1973 album <i><a href="/wiki/Sumut" class="mw-disambig" title="Sumut">Sumut</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Greenland" title="Greenland">Greenlandic</a> rock band <a href="/wiki/Sum%C3%A9_(band)" title="Sumé (band)">Sumé</a> features a song called "<span title="Greenlandic-language text"><i lang="kl">Heimaey erĸaivdlugo</i></span>" (English: "Ode to Heimaey").</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heimaey&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Puerto_de_Vestmannaeyjar%2C_Heimaey%2C_Islas_Vestman%2C_Su%C3%B0urland%2C_Islandia%2C_2014-08-17%2C_DD_093.JPG/120px-Puerto_de_Vestmannaeyjar%2C_Heimaey%2C_Islas_Vestman%2C_Su%C3%B0urland%2C_Islandia%2C_2014-08-17%2C_DD_093.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="65" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Puerto_de_Vestmannaeyjar%2C_Heimaey%2C_Islas_Vestman%2C_Su%C3%B0urland%2C_Islandia%2C_2014-08-17%2C_DD_093.JPG/180px-Puerto_de_Vestmannaeyjar%2C_Heimaey%2C_Islas_Vestman%2C_Su%C3%B0urland%2C_Islandia%2C_2014-08-17%2C_DD_093.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Puerto_de_Vestmannaeyjar%2C_Heimaey%2C_Islas_Vestman%2C_Su%C3%B0urland%2C_Islandia%2C_2014-08-17%2C_DD_093.JPG/240px-Puerto_de_Vestmannaeyjar%2C_Heimaey%2C_Islas_Vestman%2C_Su%C3%B0urland%2C_Islandia%2C_2014-08-17%2C_DD_093.JPG 2x" data-file-width="5275" data-file-height="2837" /></a></span></div> <div 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