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4 unusual facts about Vágar


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It was a merger of Vágar island teams MB Miðvágur and SÍF Sandavágur in order to increase the footballing standard of this part of the Faroe Islands.

Árnafjall

Árnafjall is the highest mountain on the island of Vágar in the Faroe Islands.

Kabelvåg

of kilometers west of the present-day center of Kabelvåg, Vágar existed as a city between 1000 and 1400.

Maersk Air

Services to Vágar in the Faroe Islands started in 1971, and in the same year Maersk, together with Scandinavian Airlines System and Cimber Air, agreed to form 'Danair' to act as an umbrella company to co-ordinate Danish domestic services.


Árnafjall

The mountain lies on the west side of Vágar close to the village of Gásadalur.

Beinta Broberg

She was married three times: in 1695 to vicar Jónas Jónasen (1660–1700) of Viðareiði, 1702 to vicar Niels Gregersen Aagaard (1672–1706) of Miðvágur in Vágar, and 1706 to vicar Peder Ditlevsen Arhboe (1675–1756), of Vágar.

Kirkja

Kirkja is one of two villages on the island of Fugloy that are connected both by the road built in the 1980s and by the ferry that connects both Kirkja and Hattarvík to Hvannasund on the larger island of Viðoy, and in the last two decades the island can also be reached by helicopter either from the national airport in Vágar, the national capital of Tórshavn or the regional capital Klaksvík.

Sørvágsvatn

In size it is 3.4 km2, more than three times the size of the second biggest lake Fjallavatn, which also lies on the island of Vágar.


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