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Heimari Dalur
Heimari Dalur is a valley in the Faroe Islands, which lies between the town of Fuglafjørður and the village of Kambsdalur. It is surrounded by the firth in the east, Mount Kambur in the south, Breiðáskarð in the west and Gjógvaráfjall in the north. Faroe Island valleys The valleys of Fuglafjørður can be divided into three categories: The eastern valleys: * Ytri Dalur (also called Kambsdalur Kambsdalur is a suburb of Fuglafjørður on the Faroe Islands. It was settled on 5 October 1985 in the valley " Ytri Dalur" which is both a part of Eystur municipality and Fuglafjørður Fuglafjørður is a village on Eysturoy's east coast ...) * Heimari Dalur (sometimes called Breiðádalur) * Innari Dalur (sometimes calles Jøkladalur) The western valleys: * Halgadalur * Góðidalur The northern valleys: * Flatirnar * Hjarðardalur Eysturoy Valleys of the Faroe Islands {{Faroes-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands ( ), or simply the Faroes ( fo, Føroyar ; da, Færøerne ), are a North Atlantic island group and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. They are located north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway between Norway ( away) and Iceland ( away). The islands form part of the Kingdom of Denmark, along with mainland Denmark and Greenland. The islands have a total area of about with a population of 54,000 as of June 2022. The terrain is rugged, and the subpolar oceanic climate (Cfc) is windy, wet, cloudy, and cool. Temperatures for such a northerly climate are moderated by the Gulf Stream, averaging above freezing throughout the year, and hovering around in summer and 5 °C (41 °F) in winter. The northerly latitude also results in perpetual civil twilight during summer nights and very short winter days. Between 1035 and 1814, the Faroe Islands were part of the Kingdom of Norway, which was in a personal union with Denmark from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuglafjørður
Fuglafjørður is a village on Eysturoy's east coast in the Faroe Islands. Its name means "fjord of birds". The village is at the edge of a bay and expands into the surrounding steep hills. The town centre is located close to the harbour and contains most of the shops and services. The harbour in Fuglafjørður is busy, as the town's economy is based on the processing of fish and fish meal. There is fishing-industry, a slip, production of trawl and also oil-depots. In the 1970s there was a terrible stink from the fishing-industry but that has since been solved. In the past years Fuglafjørður has also become famous for its newly established cultural centre in the town centre that has become one of the main cultural attractions in Eysturoy. History and development Where the Gjógvará stream meets the sea in the village, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a Viking longhouse, seventeen metres in length, with walls thick. It was found by removing four or five m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kambsdalur
Kambsdalur is a suburb of Fuglafjørður on the Faroe Islands. It was settled on 5 October 1985 in the valley " Ytri Dalur" which is both a part of Eystur municipality and Fuglafjørður Fuglafjørður is a village on Eysturoy's east coast in the Faroe Islands. Its name means "fjord of birds". The village is at the edge of a bay and expands into the surrounding steep hills. The town centre is located close to the harbour and ... municipality. Nevertheless, the village of Kambsdalur only covers the Fuglafjørður-part of "Ytri Dalur", which was bought by the Fuglafjarðar kommuna in 1981. There is a high school in Kambsdalur. References Populated places in the Faroe Islands Populated places established in 1985 Valleys of the Faroe Islands 1985 establishments in the Faroe Islands {{faroes-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firth
Firth is a word in the English and Scots languages used to denote various coastal waters in the United Kingdom, predominantly within Scotland. In the Northern Isles, it more usually refers to a smaller inlet. It is linguistically cognate to ''fjord'' (both from Proto-Germanic *''ferþuz''), which has a more constrained sense in English. Bodies of water named "firths" tend to be more common on the Scottish east coast, or in the southwest of the country, although the Firth of Clyde is an exception to this. The Highland coast contains numerous estuaries, straits, and inlets of a similar kind, but not called "firth" (e.g. the Minch and Loch Torridon); instead, these are often called sea lochs. Before about 1850, the spelling "Frith" was more common. A firth is generally the result of ice age glaciation and is very often associated with a large river, where erosion caused by the tidal effects of incoming sea water passing upriver has widened the riverbed into an estuary. Demarcation c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gjógvaráfjall
Gjógvaráfjall is a 345-metre-high mountain overlooking the village of Vágur. The mountain is located north of Vágseiði Vágseiði is an area in Vágur, Faroe Islands, located on the west coast of Suðuroy west of the village Vágur, from which it takes its name. ''Eiði'' is the Faroese word for ''isthmus''. The distance between the east and the west coast of Vá ... in the western part of the village. Some of the houses in Vágur are located on Gjógavaráfjall. A little river is named after the mountain, it is called Gjógvará. "Á" in Faroese means 'river'. "Gjógv" is the Faroese word for 'gorge'. References Mountains of the Faroe Islands Suðuroy {{Faroes-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ytri Dalur
Ytri Dalur is the southernmost of the valleys of Fuglafjørður on the island of Eysturoy in the Faroes. Ytri Dalur is also referred to as Kambsdalur. The valleys of Fuglafjørður can be divided into three categories: The eastern valleys, the western valleys and the northern valleys. The valleys of Fuglafjørður The eastern valleys * Ytri Dalur (also called Kambsdalur Kambsdalur is a suburb of Fuglafjørður on the Faroe Islands. It was settled on 5 October 1985 in the valley " Ytri Dalur" which is both a part of Eystur municipality and Fuglafjørður Fuglafjørður is a village on Eysturoy's east coast ...) * Heimari Dalur (sometimes called Breiðádalur) * Innari Dalur (sometimes called Jøkladalur) The western valleys * Halgadalur * Góðidalur The northern valleys * Flatirnar * Hjarðardalur References Heimsatlas. Føroya Skúalbókagrunnur, Tórshavn, 1993. Page 6–7. Eysturoy Valleys of the Faroe Islands {{Faroes-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innari Dalur
Innari Dalur is the valley in the west of the town of Fuglafjørður in the Faroe Islands. It is surrounded by Fuglafjørður in the east, mount Gjógvaráfjall in the south, Jøklaskarð in the west and mount Blábjørg and mount Slætnatindur in the north. The valleys of Fuglafjørður can be divided into three categories: The eastern valleys: * Ytri Dalur (also called Kambsdalur) * Heimari Dalur Heimari Dalur is a valley in the Faroe Islands, which lies between the town of Fuglafjørður and the village of Kambsdalur. It is surrounded by the firth in the east, Mount Kambur in the south, Breiðáskarð in the west and Gjógvaráfjall in th ... (sometimes called Breiðádalur) * Innari Dalur (sometimes called Jøkladalur) The western valleys: * Halgadalur * Góðidalur The northern valleys: * Flatirnar * Hjarðardalur Sources: Heimsatlas. Føroya Skúalbókagrunnur, Tórshavn, 1993. Page 6–7. Valleys of the Faroe Islands Eysturoy {{Faroes-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eysturoy
Eysturoy (pronounced estroimeaning 'East Island') is a region and the second-largest of the Faroe Islands, both in size and population. Description Eysturoy is separated by a narrow sound from the main island of Streymoy. Eysturoy is extremely rugged, with some 66 separate mountain peaks, including Slættaratindur, the highest peak in the archipelago at . The country's two longest fjords, Skálafjørður in the south and Funningsfjørður in the north, almost split the island in two halves. The isthmus in between, Millum Fjarða, is one of the flattest areas in the country. Important settlements on Eysturoy are Fuglafjørður in the north and the densely populated area of the municipalities of Runavík and Nes in the south. Eysturoy is connected with Streymoy by the Streymin Bridge over the Sundini. Leirvík on the east coast of the island is the gateway for transport connections to the north-eastern islands, particularly Klaksvík on the island of Borðoy, which is the Faroes' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
