A letter with a hand-drawn map of a far-flung corner of Iceland instead of an address successfully made it to its intended recipient thanks to the country's canny postal service.

A photo of the envelope was posted on Reddit this week. While the sender identified the destination as Iceland, and the “city” as the village of Búðardalur, “a horse farm with an Icelandic/Danish couple and three kids and a lot of sheep” was given as the “name”.

The envelope that founds its way to its recipient Credit: Reddit/Jidoen

Beneath, the sender explained that the letter was meant for “the Danish woman [who] works in a supermarket in Búðardalur”, and sketched a rudimentary map showing where her house would be found.

The map indicated a number of roads, as well as the bay of Hvammsfjörður, and pinpointed the house's location using a red dot (helpfully labelled “here”). Thankfully, the postman was able to find the house and the letter was delivered successfully.

The region in the north-west of Iceland is fairly remote, with the coastal village of Búðardalur home to just 270 inhabitants - in a county of just 650.

West Iceland's tourist board says Búðardalur is the main administrative and service centre in the Dalabyggd region.

"Few parts of Iceland are as rich in history as Dalabyggd, where records go back virtually unbroken to the Settlement in the 9th and 10th centuries," it says.

What3words, a programme that allows any point in the world to found using a combination of three words - in a drive to help sparsely-populated countries where post codes are lacking - told Telegraph Travel that the name of the location in Iceland would have been woke.objects.outdoes.