Best known for its volcanic eruption in 1973, when for half the year the island was subjected to lava flows which threatened its houses and harbor, starkly beautiful Heimaey with its towering puffin-covered cliffs is the largest and the only inhabited of the Vestmannaeyjar or Westman Islands off Iceland's southern coast (pop. 4,500).
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