Hauganes
- Location
- Hauganes, Iceland
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 7.5
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Hauganes, a small fishing village 22 kilometres north of Akureyri on the Eyjafjörður fjord in northern Iceland, maintains a modest outdoor geothermal hot pot fed by chloride-rich water from the region's geothermal system, offering bathing with panoramic fjord views in one of Iceland's most picturesque and historic fjord communities. Eyjafjörður, Iceland's longest fjord at 60 kilometres, is flanked by some of the country's most productive agricultural land and supports thriving fishing communities whose relationship with the sea and the land has been continuous since the first Norse settlers arrived in the ninth century. Hauganes' hot pot represents the community-embedded geothermal tradition that supplements the hot pool infrastructure of every Icelandic village, providing a local wellness resource in a fjord landscape of outstanding natural beauty.