Selvík is a small bay on the southside of
Sørvágsfjørður
Sørvágsfjørður is a fjord on the west side of the island of Vágar, Vágoy in the Faroe Islands which is approximately long.
At the end of the fjord lies the village of Sørvágur. On the northside of the fjord lies the small village of B ...
. It is about one kilometer to the west of the village
Sørvágur :''There is also a town called Vágur on Suðuroy.''
Sørvágur ( da, Sørvåg) is a village on the island of Vágar in the Faroe Islands.
It is located at the landward end of Sørvágsfjørður. Sørvágur is the largest village in Sørvágur ...
in the
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 bet ...
.
In 1901 the owners of the whaling station in
Norðdepli, decided to build a new station in Selvík. During the spring of 1902 the Norwegian cargo ship "Viking", and the whaling boat Norddeble came with equipment and material and already in June 1902 whaling activity started from the station.
The station got a brand new whaling boat with the name Selvik in 1904.
The station closed down already in 1912.
Between 1894 and 1905 seven whaling stations were established in the Faroes. These were located in Selvík,
Lopra (
Suðuroy),
Gjánoyri,
Norðdepil
Norðdepil (pronounced ; da, Norddeble) is a town on the east coast of the island of Borðoy in the Norðoyar Region of the Faroe Islands.
History
Norðdepil was founded in 1866. Its school opened in 1895.
On 18 August 1941, around noon, a Ger ...
,
Funningsfjørður
Funningsfjørður ( da, Fundingsfjord) is a village located at the end of a fjord of the same name ('fjørður' is the Faroese word for 'fjord'). It was founded in 1812 and has since 2005 been part of the municipality of Runavík.
Whaling stat ...
,
Signabøur and
Við Áir.
MMR.Sansir.net, The Whaling Station við Áir, May 2007, Provisional report on the conservation of the whaling station as a maritime museum, page 6: The Whaling Station við Áir
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References
Whaling stations of the Faroe Islands
Whaling in the Faroe Islands
Bays of the Faroe Islands
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