EncyclopediaIsafjörður
Isafjörður (ē'säfyör"&thstrok;ür) [key], town (1993 pop. 3,524), NW Iceland, on the Isafjarðardjúp, an arm of the Denmark Strait. It is a fishing port and has refrigeration plants, shrimp and fish-meal factories, shipyards, and machine workshops. It was chartered in 1866.
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