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Iceland's most-photographed mountain and the Journey to the Center of the Earth glacier.
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Sun Voyager
A steel sculpture of a dream ship on the seafront, facing the bay and the mountains, best at sunset.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 20 minutes
- Address
- Sæbraut, 101 ReykjavíkDirections
- Getting There
- A 10-minute walk east along the seafront from Harpa.
Why Go
Jón Gunnar Árnason's sculpture, unveiled in 1990, looks like a Viking ship but was meant as an ode to the sun and a promise of undiscovered land. The seafront path runs past it from Harpa.
Nearby in Reykjavík
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