Langanes is a peninsula in northeast Iceland. The name literally means "long peninsula". It is 45 kilometres long from southwest to northeast, ending in a thin strip of land called Fontur where there is also a suggestive lighthouse called Langanesviti. It is bounded by Þistilfjörður to the northwest and Bakkaflói to the southeast, while the terrain inland rea…Langanes is a peninsula in northeast Iceland. The name literally means "long peninsula". It is 45 kilometres long from southwest to northeast, ending in a thin strip of land called Fontur where there is also a suggestive lighthouse called Langanesviti. It is bounded by Þistilfjörður to the northwest and Bakkaflói to the southeast, while the terrain inland reaches elevations of 200–450 metres. The highest point is Gunnólfsvíkurfjall in the southeast of the peninsula, at 719 m.
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