About place

The "Sléttan", as the Melrakkaslétta is often called, is the
peninsula reaching from Kópasker in the west to Raufarhöfn in
the east.  The coastline is indented with creeks and lagoons
and has grassy heathlands and dozens of lakes teeming with
fish.  This area offers shelter and is a temporary stopping
place for thousands and thousands of birds that come here for
the summer or rest here for their further flights to the north
or to the south.  Seals can also be seen resting on skerries
and whales are spotted off the coast as well as foxes and mink
on the heaths close to rivers and lakes. 

The richly varied vegetation has few parallels.  No one place attracts the traveller more than some other place.  Nature in its entirety
does.  A veritable mecca for lowers of nature.  This is infact
one of the best places in Iceland to see the midnight sun and
from late August to April the famous northern lights.