High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Húsavík is a small town in Norðurþing municipality on the north of Iceland on the shores of Skjálfandi bay. The income of the inhabitants is derived from tourism and fishing, as well as retail and small industry. Húsavík has become a centre of whale watching in the north due to whales of different species that frequently enter the bay. It is also home to the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which contains specimens from every mammal that lives in Iceland, and to the Húsavík Whale Museum.