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The Faroe Islands has a land area of 1,399 square kilometres (540 sq mi). The archipelago has a sea area of 274,000 square kilometres (105,792 sq mi). Thus, more than 99% of the Faroe Island’s total area is ocean.
Narrow sounds and rapid currents divide the islands. Faroe Islands or Føroyar consists of high mountains traversed by deep valleys, countless waterfalls and narrow fjords.
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Roads are in well maintained in the Faroe Islands making the archipelago perfect for an adventurous road trip. Photo Pawel Zygmunt.
Moody evening view outside the village Sandavágur.
The spiky rock formation Trøllkonufingur.
Photo by Costas Kariolis also known as @photo_costas on Instagram.
Puffins with their charming beaks are in the island group during summer.
Photo by Chris Poplawski.
Mykines, Faroe Islands , Kingdom of Denmark
Mykines (Danish: Myggenæs) is the westernmost of the 18 main islands of the Faroese Archipelago.
It lies west of 7.5 degrees W, effectively putting it in the UTC-1 region. However, Mykines uses Greenwich Mean Time like the rest of the Faroes. The only settlement on the island is also called Mykines.
On the northern side of the island is the valley of Korkadalur, where there are great columns of basalt, called the Stone-wood. To the west of Mykines is the 1 km long islet Mykineshólmur, with several sea stacks clustered at its western end, where a lighthouse was built in 1909. A 40m-long footbridge connects its eastern end with Mykines.
Mykines seen from Vágar
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Mykines seen from Mykineshólmur
Hólmur Lighthouse at Mykines, Faroe Islands, Denmark
Connected to the remote island of Mykines by a short footbridge, this landmass less than a mile long is home to a century-old beacon. Built in 1909, Hólmur Lighthouse stands surrounded by sea cliffs and seabirds on the westernmost tip of the Faroe Islands. If you were to sail due west from this North Atlantic archipelago administered by Denmark, you'd cover more than 1,000 miles of chilly seas before spotting the fjord-laced coast of Greenland—where, should you manage to alight on the icy shore, you'd still be on Danish soil.
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