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Húnaflói

a bay on the northern coast of Iceland; part of the southern Greenland Sea. Húnaflói is 100 km long; it is 40 km wide at its mouth and reaches a maximum width of 60 km. The maximum depth is 217 m. The bay’s numerous inlets include Hunafjörður (with the lagoon of Hóp), Steingrimsfjörður, and Hrútafjörður. The shores are high and steep. Tides are semidiurnal and have a range of approximately 2 m. Fishing settlements and fish-processing plants are situated along the shores.

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No references found			It marks a prominent cape on the north coast, at the western entrance to the Hunafloi, a broad bay that separates the northwestern fjords from the rest of northern Iceland. West Fjords by Young, Marjorie; Young, Don / Iceland Travel Adventures A broad and rugged peninsula, Skagi juts into the sea between Skagafjordur to the East and Hunafloi Bay to the West. Skagastrond by Young, Marjorie; Young, Don / Iceland Travel Adventures Husavik--This light marks the eastern entrance to the broad Hunafloi Bay 15 miles north of Skagastrond. Lighthouses in North Iceland by Young, Marjorie; Young, Don / Iceland Travel Adventures			Humphrey Island Humphrey's spiral Humphrey, Doris Humphrey, George Humphrey, Hubert H Humphrey, Hubert H. Humphrey, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, William Humphreys County Humphreys Peak Humphreys series Humphreys, David Humphreys, Joshua Humphries Humphries equation Humphries, Rolfe Humphry Davy Humping, Automatic Humpty Dumpty Humult Humulus Humus Hun Hun Sen Huna Bay Hunafloi Húnaflói Hunan Hunboldt Glacier hunchback Hund coupling cases Hund rules Hund, Friedrich Hundertschaften der Arbeiter Wehr, Die Hundred Hundred Days Hundred Days of Reform Hundred Days, The Hundred Years War Hundred Years War 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War hundred-percent rectangle hundredweight Hundsdieke reaction Hunedoara Huneker, James Gibbons hung hung ceiling Hung Ho Hung Hsiu-Chuan Hung Hsiu-Chüan			Humult Humulus Humulus Humulus americanus Humulus japonicus Humulus lupulus Humulus lupulus humungous humus humus humus HUMV Humvee Humvee Humvees HUMVIB Hun Hun Hun Hun Hun history Hun Sen Hun Seu Tseun Hun stuff Hun-ahau Hun-ahaw Hun-t'un Hundredweight Hundredweight Huna Bay Hunafloi Húnaflói HUNAGI Hunahau Hunan Hunan Húnán Húnán Hunan Flood Management Project Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center Hunan Normal University Hunan Pacific Drilling Hunan Pacific Geological Exploration Inc. Hunan province Hunan province Hunan University of Arts and Science Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Hunan Vocational College of Foreign Languages Hunan, China Hunan, China HUNAP Hunboldt Glacier HUNC hunch hunch hunch hunch forward hunch over hunch over Hunch Punch hunch up

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