Definitions

1. The Faroes are eighteen North Atlantic islands located northwest of Scotland and halfway between Iceland and Norway.
2. The Faroes are still represented in the Danish parliament by two representatives.
3. The Faroes are represented in the Nordic Council as a part of the Danish delegation.
4. In the Faroes, the blubber of pilot whales constitutes an important part of the traditional diet.

Gas-Stations

1. All over the Faroes you will find gas-stations, Statoil and Shell.

Nordic Council

1. Also, since 1970 the Faroes have had independent status in the Nordic Council.

Unique

1. Furthermore, the ring-shaped reef forms known as faroes in the Baa atoll is a reef structure which is unique to the Maldives.

Control

1. About the turn of the millenium the Faroes came under control of the Norwegian king.

Towns

1. Atlantic Airways offers a helicopter service to selected towns and villages throughout the Faroes.

Nature

1. The pilot whale hunt in the Faroes is, by its very nature, a dramatic and bloody sight.

Statistics

1. These towns and villages have featured most heavily in the statistics for whaling in the Faroes since 1854.

Regard

1. In general, it is growingly less valid to regard the Faroes as a society based on separate islands and regions.

Fin Whales

1. Fin whales are abundant in the Faroes, and they can be seen at all times of the year, however most of them are here from May to September.

Various Species

1. The caterpillar lives on various species of the Convolvulaceae family, in the Faroes on plants of the dock family, Rumex.

Ballad

1. But a Faroes e ballad recorded in 1840 names Odin's son as Veraldur, this Veraldur being understood as another name of Frö, that is of Frey.

Own Flag

1. Furthermore, the Faroes have their own flag (merkið).

Second Largest Town

1. Klaksv�k, the second largest town in the Faroes, has a population of 5,000.

Time

1. None of the species mentioned here are native to the Faroes, but can be seen here from time to time.
2. In July the blue whales begin to swim to the south again, this time to the east of the Faroes, where they meet up with the first group again.

Motoring

1. The other main Islands Sandoy and Suðuroy have excellent car-ferry connections to Streymoy, making motoring in the Faroes easy and pleasent.

Danish Parliament

1. At the same time the Faroes came to be represented at the Danish parliament.

Couple

1. Atlantic Airways, connects the Faroes with a couple of chosen cities in Northern Europe.

Years

1. In 1816, two years later, the Faroes were made into a Danish County and the old parliament was abolished.

Scandinavia

1. Atlantic Airways, connects the Faroes with a couple of chosen cities in Scandinavia.

Sei Whales

1. The sei whales migrate from May to October and in years such as the year 2000, many sei whales are seen off the Faroes.

European Union

1. Hence, Danish people living in the Faroes are not citizens of the European Union.

Ferry Service

1. It is the only ferry service with a scheduled service to the Faroes.

Norway

1. In about 1380 the Faroes, together with Norway, came under the Danish throne, but the islands preserved their special status as former Norwegian territory.
2. The sei whale has always been a very irregular visitor to both the Faroes and Norway, for reasons which remain unknown.
3. The status of the Faroes changed under king Magnus VI of Norway, who introduced the Norwegian Landslog (Land's Law) in 1274.

Language

1. Faroese is spoken in the Faroes Islands, and Frisian (spoken in the Netherlands) is the language that is the most closely related to English.
2. Brief overview of the language and history of the Faroes.

Whale Meat

1. Norway has exported a limited amount of whale meat to the Faroes and Iceland.

Handwriting

1. In handwriting these dots might instantiate as short strokes forming a letter looking like Ő, ő. Common family names on the Faroes are e.g.

Denmark

1. The Faroes declined to join Denmark in entering the European Community (now European Union) in 1973.
2. When German forces occupied Denmark on 9 April 1940, the Danish krone was used in the Faroes.
3. This is for two reasons: Firstly, many ethnic Faroese live in Denmark and few who are born there return to the Faroes with their parents or as adults.

Fishing Industry

1. The fishing industry is the most important source of income for the Faroes.

Orkneys

1. Viking earldoms also were the Orkneys, Faroes, and Shetlands.

Iceland

1. We were lucky enough to be able to offer some exciting cruises - to the Shetlands, Orkney, Norway, Faroes and Iceland - aboard Hans Hansson for a time.
2. A census was taken of the whales in the North Atlantic in 1987, 1989 and 1995 as a joint project involving the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland and Norway.
3. But the discontented, "and they were a great multitude," fled oversea to the outlands, Iceland, the Faroes, the Orkneys, and Ireland.

Pilot Whale

1. For centuries the people of the Faroes, an isolated archipelago halfway between Scotland and Iceland, have hunted the pilot whale.
2. The pilot whale hunts at Faroes Islands have been around for centuries and centuries: since 1584.

Pilot Whales

1. With 800,000 pilot whales in the North Atlantic and with rarely more than 2,000 a year taken in the Faroes, the whale population was not under threat.

Faroe Islands

1. The Nordic House in the Faroe Islands (in Faroese Norðurlandahúsið) is the most important cultural institution in the Faroes.

Faroese

1. Faroese has been spoken in the Faroes for about 600 years, when it separated itself from Old Norse.
2. Learning Faroese It is unusual for Faroese to be taught at universities outside the Faroes (within Scandinavian studies).
3. The native and official language of the Faroes is Faroese, which is a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language.

Faroes

1. In 1380 the Faroes along with Orkney, Shetland, Iceland and Greenland, came with Norway into a union with Denmark.
2. At the end of the Napoleanic wars, by the Treaty of Kiel in 1814, Denmark was forced to cede Norway to Sweden, but kept the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland.
3. Danish is the national language of Denmark, and one of two official languages of the Faroes (alongside Faroese).

Categories

1. Northern Europe > Scandinavia > Faroe Islands > Faroese
2. Animals > Specific Animals > Whales > Pilot Whales
3. Regions > Northern Europe > Scandinavia > Iceland
4. Regions > Northern Europe > Scandinavia > Faroe Islands
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