Faeroes

Prescott will read the main part of the bulletin for the 31 sea areas, from Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire to Fair Isle, Faeroes, and Southeast Iceland.

Lord Prescott to present shipping forecast for Comic Relief 2011

Neil Thompson—the skipper of the Good Shepherd today—told me that his great-uncle, fishing after herring, had sailed open boats hundreds of miles from Shetland to within sight of the Faeroes.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Niels Jakup Mortensen, 11, spotted a black box near his home on Suduroy, the Faeroes 'southernmost island, his mother Anna Jacobsen said.

Boing Boing 2007

But at 3.6% of the Faeroes 'GDP, it is a big gesture.

Overheard 2008

The reconstruction of the situation between AD1675 and 1705 resulting from this study suggests a probable mean departure from modern values between the Faeroes and southeast Iceland amounting to about –5 deg C and at the climax in 1695, the polar water seems to have spread all around Iceland; across the entire surface of the Norwegian Sea to Norway and south to near Shetland.

Lamb on the Northeast Atlantic « Climate Audit 2006

Fishing in mid- to distant-waters, pelagic boats are very hard to monitor, especially as they travel long distances in search of herring and mackerel shoals, with catches often landed in Norway, Iceland or the Faeroes where there are few controls in the import of foreign-caught fish.

A failure of enforcement Richard 2005

Under the new constitution, the Landsting was reorganized so that it included 12 members appointed by the government, 1 from the Faeroes, and the election of the remainder controlled by electoral colleges split between members popularly elected and members elected by the wealthier taxpayers.

2. Denmark and Iceland 2001

More than 300 objects from nine different countries trace Viking migration from a homeland in modern Scandinavia, to the Orkney and Shetland Islands, the Faeroes and Iceland, Greenland, and finally North America.

At the Museums: Three Cheers for the Vikings 2000

On 24th August, the day that the Deutschland sailed from Wilhelmshaven and the Admiralty signalled orders to all Home Fleet ships to proceed to their war stations, Kapitän zur See Hans Langsdorff had successfully brought the Graf Spee to a point midway between Iceland and the Faeroes without being sighted.

Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

The Grass has jumped two hundred miles, from the Faeroes to the Shetlands and we are menaced on three sides.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940