Víkar (pronounced ) is an abandoned village in the

Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a populat ...

on the north coast of the island of

Vágar Vágar (; ) is one of the 18 islands in the archipelago of the Faroe Islands and the most westerly of the ''large islands''. With a size of , it ranks third in size, behind Streymoy and Eysturoy. Vágar Regions of the Faroe Islands, region also ...

. The name ''Víkar'' means ''coves'' in Faroese, a name with a similar meaning to that of the island of Vágar itself.

History

Víkar was founded in 1833 and belonged to the village of Gásadalur farther south. Even today a path still connects the two communities with each other. Even though the landscape was very favourable, Víkar had already been abandoned by 1910, because it was too difficult to reach. It shared this fate with its former neighbouring community of

Slættanes Slættanes (pronounced ) is a village on the island of Vágar in the western Faroes, which is now abandoned and only used as summer homes. Slættanes, like the also-abandoned village of Víkar, Faroe Islands, Víkar, is on the northern coast of th ...

, which had also been founded during the same period.

References

*The information in this article is based on a translation of its German equivalent. Former populated places in the Faroe Islands Vágar Populated places established in 1833 1833 establishments in the Danish colonial empire {{faroes-geo-stub