Illugastaðir

Illugastaðir, an abandoned farm. The farmer, Natan Ketilsson, and his shepherd Pétur Jónsson were murdered there in 1828 (see Þrístapar, A–Hún). Natan got the farm in 1824 and his family has been there since. From Illugastaðir came captain Hrólfur Jakobsson who drowned in 1910 shortly be­fore his departure to the island Jan Mayen where he and another man had intended to put up a hunting camp, hunt for seal and claim the island for Iceland. It was, however, not until 1921 that Nor­wegians first settled on Jan Mayen and put up a weather station there.