Is this the loneliest house in the world? Looking at the mysterious island cottage standing on its own, the question of who lives there comes instantly to mind.
The house stands in the middle of Ellidaey, the most northeastern island in the Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands), located south of Iceland.  The cottage is not a residential home, but a hunting lodge built by the island’s official hunting association.
(Diego Delso/CC BY 4.0)
Flocks of puffins are the targets, and hunters travel to the Vestmannaeyjar from far afield. Hunting puffins for meat is a tradition in the archipelago but everywhere else in the country, except the north where seabirds have been crucial to the survival of the population for centuries, the practice is banned….