What the records say
- When
- 1615
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 30
- Coordinates
- 65.74° N, 22.17° W
- Description
- 1615 killings of Basque whalers in Iceland
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Slaying of the Basques
1615 massacre of Basque whalers in Iceland
The Slaying of the Basques was the last documented massacre in Icelandic history. A party of Basque whalers went on a whaling expedition to Iceland and were killed after a conflict in 1615 with local people in the region of the Westfjords.
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- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Spánverjavígin, the last massacre to be carried out in Iceland, begins as 14 Basque Whalers from Spain are murdered at Thingeyri while sleeping”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page