REISTARNES (Reistur´s Peninsula), Melrakkaslétta (Fox Prairie district) Current occupants: Kristinn Steinarsson and Ágústa Ágústsdóttir The farmers at REISTARNES participate in the following national initiative: Quality managed sheep farming (Gæðastýrð sauðfjárræktun) In 1954-1955, Steinar Kristinsson and his german wife, Jóhanna Kristinsson, who moved to this part of Iceland along with a few other women at the end of the Secod World War, started to build a new farm on a one-fifth part of the farm NÝHÖFN (New Harbour). Steinar decided to honour the settler “Reistur” who settled on the land of LEIRHÖFN (Pelitic Harbour) by naming the new farm REISTARNES (Reistur´s Peninsula). Other…
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