Flatey is an island of the western islands, a cluster of about forty large and small islands and islets located in Breiðafjörður on the northwestern part of Iceland. The island is about two kilometers long and one kilometer wide and is quite flat almost without any hills, so therefore the name 'Flatey', meaning "flat island".Flatey and its surrounding islands are, as a creation, believed to have forged from under the weight of a great glacier during the previous Ice age.