Trongisvágur ( da, Trangisvåg) is a village on the island of Suduroy 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 ...

. Trongisvágur is the village in the bottom of

Trongisvágsfjørður Trongisvágsfjørður is a fjord on the island of Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands. There are four villages around the fjord. Furthest east on the northern side of the fjord is Froðba, in the bottom of the fjord is Trongisvágur. In between Tro ...

(

fjord In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Ice ...

) on the east coast of Suduroy. Trongisvágur and the neighbouring villages of

Tvøroyri Tvøroyri is a village on the north side of the Trongisvágsfjørður on the east coast of Suðuroy island in the Faroe Islands. Together with Froðba, Trongisvágur, Líðin and Øravík it forms Tvøroyri Municipality. The village is considered ...

and

Øravík Øravík (also spelled Ørðavík, da, Ørdevig) is a village on the east coast of the island of Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands. The village is located in the center of the island on a crossroad where the road to Fámjin goes towards west over ...

have grown into one entity (the northern part of Øravík, which is called Øravíkarlíð, is where the ferry port

Krambatangi Krambatangi is the ferry port of Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands. The ferry MS ''Smyril'' M/F disembarks 2–3 times daily from Krambatangi to Tórshavn. Krambatangi is located on the southern side of Trongisvágsfjørður halfway between Trongis ...

is). A river called Stórá that runs through the valley passes through a plantation that is worth visiting on a good day, and then flows into the inlet at a nearby beach. There is a debate whether the name Trong is Norse or Gaelic in origin. Another version of the name is Trungisvágur. Trungisvágsbotnur is on the west coast, west of Trongisvágur. There are binoculars there in summertime, so people can have a closer look at birds and the vertical cliffs there. The place is called Á Røðini, but some people call it Kikarin, because of the binoculars. Shortly after the Park of Trongisvágur is the tunnel to

Hvalba Hvalba ( da, Kvalbø) is a village and a municipality in the Faroe Islands, which consists of Hvalba, Nes-Hvalba and Sandvík. The village spreads around the bottom of a deep inlet, Hvalbiarfjørður, in the northeast of Suðuroy. Population Hv ...

, the

Hvalbiartunnilin The Hvalbiartunnilin (Hvalba Tunnel) is the name applied to two tunnels on the island of Suðuroy, the most southerly of the Faroe Islands. The original Hvalbiartunnilin is the oldest tunnel in the country, while the new Hvalbiartunnilin is the ne ...

, which was the first road tunnel in the

. It was dug in 1963 and is 1450 metres long. In 2019 the boring of a replacement tunnel commenced. The highest mountain in

Suðuroy Suðuroy (literally South Island, da, Suderø) is the southernmost of the Faroe Islands. The island covers 163.7 square kilometres (63.2 sq mi). In 2018 the population was 4,601. Suðuroy region (sýsla) comprises this island and Lítla ...

, Gluggarnir, is in the south of Trongisvágur; it is 610 metres high.

Sports Hall and Football Stadium

In Trongisvágur, there is a sports hall, a school and a kindergarten. On 17 November 2011 they started to build a new football stadium for

TB Tvøroyri TB or Tb may refer to: Science and technology Computing * Terabyte (TB), a unit of information (often measuring storage capacity) * Terabit (Tb), a unit of information (often measuring data transfer) * Thunderbolt (interface) * Test bench Vehicle ...

west of the sports hall. In April 2012 the football field was named ''Fótbóltsvøllurin við Stórá'' (Stórá means large or grand river, there is a river nearby with the name Stórá, hence ''The Football Stadium við Stórá''. In English it would probably be ''Grand River Stadium''). Earlier they had considered other names for the football stadium, the two other names which they considered were old place names from that area: ''Í Stópunum'' and ''Undir Brekkum''. Finally they chose the name ''Við Stórá''.Sudurras.info, Fótbóltsvøllurin við Stórá í Trongisvági
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Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Trongisvágur include: *

Heðin Mortensen Heðin Mortensen (born April 7, 1946) is a Faroese politician member of the Social Democratic Party. He is the current mayor of the Municipality of Tórshavn since 1 January 2021. He was also mayor from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2016. Morten ...

(born 1946), politician

References

External links

Faroeislands.dk: Trongisvágur
Images and description of all cities on the Faroe Islands. {{DEFAULTSORT:Trongisvagur Populated places in the Faroe Islands Suðuroy

Sports Hall and Football Stadium

Notable people

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