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Boys in a Band

Through 2006 the band managed to become one of the most popular live acts in the Faroes, and despite never having released a record, this secured them a nomination in the annual Planet Awards, a local Faroese award show, which is sponsored by the daily paper Sosialurin.

Copulabyssia corrugata

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from the Faroes to Madeira; in the Mediterranean Sea.

Fauna of the Faroe Islands

The bird fauna of the Faroes is dominated by Sea-birds and birds attracted to open land like Heather, probably due to the lack of woodland and other suited habitats.

Hans Pauli Olsen

His work is to be found not only in art galleries but in many towns in the Faroes, especially in the Faroese capital Tórshavn.

Jakob Jakobsen

Jakob (properly Jákup) Jakobsen, (* 22 February 1864 in Tórshavn, Faroe; † 15 August 1918 in Copenhagen), was a Faroese linguist as well as a scholar of literature.

Jákup Mikkelsen

He was a part of the squad as a reserve goalkeeper already as 18 years old in the summer of 1988, when Faroes played their very first international game after becoming full members of FIFA, losing 1-0 to Iceland in Akranes.

John Sands

Sands also spent time on the remote Scottish islands of Vaila, Papa Stour and Foula in Shetland, and also lived on Tiree in the Inner Hebrides and the Faroe Islands.

Kirkja

From here there is a beautiful view over the sound Fugloyarfjørður towards the impressive capes of Svínoy and also towards the northernmost cape of the Faroes, Enniberg on Viðoy' - one of the highest cliffs in the world - and the impressive rounded isthmus of Viðareiði that has been a favorite motive for Faeroese and foreign painters throughout the past century because of its tremendously beautiful sunset.

Roman Catholicism in the Faroe Islands

By 1900 only one Catholic remained on the Faroes, in Hvítanes.

Sámal Joensen-Mikines

Apart from Listaskálin in Tórshavn, where a great permanent exhibition is, paintings can be seen in the Faroese Parliament as well in many banks and savings banks all over the Faroes.

Sunda, Faroe Islands

This highway - currently one of the main-arteries of the Faroes - also features a bridge across the sound that divides Eysturoy and Streymoy, thus creating a region centred around the bridge.

Sverre of Norway

When Sverre was five, the family moved to the Faroes where Sverre was raised in the household of Unås' brother Roe, bishop of the Faroes on Kirkjubøargarður in Kirkjubøur.

Taxation in Norway

The early national kingdom had in addition other casual tax revenues like finnskatt (and possibly tax revenues from Shetland, Orkney, the Faroes and Hebrides) and trade and travel fees (landaurar).

Ytri Dalur

Ytri Dalur is the southernmost of the valleys of Fuglafjørður on the island of Eysturoy in the Faroes.


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