Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Southern Region
Detourmap lists 114 places in Southern Region, Iceland, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Eyjafjallajökull. 39 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 114
- Oldest
- Surtsey 1963
- Little known
- 39 of 114
- Share of Iceland
- 29%
Southern Region 114
All 114, best known first.
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2.Surtsey
Nature · 20th century · Renowned
Volcanic island located in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off the southern coast of Iceland
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59.Reynisdrangar
Nature · Notable
Basalt sea stacks situated under the mountain Reynisfjall, southern Iceland
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99.Reynisfjara
Nature · Hidden gem
Black sand beach in southern Iceland near the town of Vík í Mýrdal
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104.Þjóðveldisbærinn Stöng
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in Skeiða- og Gnúpverjahreppur, Iceland
Elsewhere in Iceland
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Southern Region?
Eyjafjallajökull. Ice cap in Iceland covering the caldera of a volcano. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Southern Region?
114: 113 nature & landscapes and 1 archaeological & historic sites. 39 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Southern Region?
Surtsey, dated to 1963. 8 of the 114 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Southern Region here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Southern Region if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Southern Region is a first-level division of Iceland, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.