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TrllaskagiTrllaskagi is a peninsula in northern Iceland between the fjords of Eyjafjrur and Skagafjrur. The peninsula is mountainous with several peaks reaching over 1000 meters above sea level, the tallest is Kerling (1538 m). It is the part of Iceland with the highest elevation outside the central highlands. The peninsula is cut by several deep valleys that were formed by glaciers during ice ages and later by the rivers that now flow down those valleys. A few permanent glacier ice caps still exist in central Trllaskagi but they are all rather small. Human settlement is only possible in the relatively flat lowlands along the coast and in the valleys but these lowlands are densely populated by Icelandic standards with important agricultural regions and a few towns and villages that mostly base their livelihood on fisheries. Those settlements are (clockwise around the peninsula beginning in Skagafjrur): Hofss, Hlar, Siglufjrur, lafsfjrur, Dalvk, rskgssandur, Hauganes, Hjalteyri, Akureyri and Hrafnagil. The Ring Road runs through Trllaskagi between Siglufjrur and Eyjafjrur through a mountain pass called xnadalsheii where the road reaches a maximum elevation of 540 meters above sea level which can sometimes pose a problem during wintertime. Several different tunneling projects have been suggested as a way to bypass xnadalsheii.
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