Hvannasund

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The port in Hvannasund
Location of Hvannasund in the Faroe Islands
Hvannasund
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Location of the municipality

Hvannasund [ ˈkvanːasʊnd ] ( Danish : Kvannesund ) is a place in the Faroe Islands on the island of Viðoy . The place is the administrative seat of the Faroese municipality of the same name Hvannasund ( Hvannasunds kommuna ). The place is named after the sound of the same name that separates the islands of Borðoy and Viðoy. At the beginning of 2016 there were 236 residents in Hvannasund. The zip code is FO-740.

past

Hvannasund is first mentioned in writing in the Jarðarbókin of 1584. In 1866 a merchant from Hvannasund founded the neighboring village of Norðdepil on the opposite bank of the sound on Borðoy . In 1893 the houses in the village were badly devastated by a landslide. Two years later, Hvannasund received a school for the first time. In 1932 a new school building was opened and in 1949 the church of Hvannasund was consecrated. In 1963 a connecting dam was built across the sound between Norðdepil on Borðoy and Hvannasund on Viðoy.

On May 28, 2008, there was a tsunami in Hvannasund with a 3 m high tidal wave. Nobody was injured. The cause is unknown.

present

The main line of business in Hvannasund is fishing, which is represented locally with fish farming, fishing and fish processing.

Besides Viðareiði, Hvannasund itself is the only place on Viðoy. It has been connected to Norðdepil by a road embankment since 1963 and further to Klaksvík by two tunnels since 1967 . Thanks to Viðareiðistunnilin , which opened in September 2016, the village Viðareiði in the north of Viðoy can now be reached safely from Hvannasund.

The ferry traffic with the passenger ferry Ritan across Fugloyarfjørður to the islands of Fugloy and Svínoy also makes Hvannasund very important for the eastern part of the six north islands .

local community

In 1950 the municipality of Hvannasund ( Hvannasunds kommuna ) was formed, to which the places Depil , Múli , Norðdepil and Norðtoftir belong, all of which are located on the island of Borðoy . Only the administrative center Hvannasund is on Viðoy. Together the municipality has 453 inhabitants (2002).

  • Norðdepil (left) and Hvannasund (right) are connected by a dam. In the background the mighty mountains on Viðoy.

  • The former mail boat Másin (The Herring Gull), which was decommissioned in 2010, in the port of Hvannasund.

  • Today's mail and passenger ferry Ritan (The Kittiwake) in the port of Hvannasund.

  • The church in Hvannasund from 1949.

  • A cloud on the sound.

Web links

Commons : Hvannasund  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fólkatalsbroytingar skiftar á fødd, deyð, flutt og bygd, mánaðarliga (1985-2016) , hagstova.fo
  2. ↑ Hvussu gomul er bygdin , heimabeiti.fo (in Faroese)
  3. ↑ The Jarðarbókin 1584 is the oldest surviving register of royal estates on the Faroe Islands ( Jarðarbókin 1584 )
  4. ↑ Listed on page 9 under the Danish name "Quannd Sanndt": " Jarðarbókin 1584 "
  5. ^ Aftenposten (Oslo): Tsunami rams Færøyene . aftenposten.no. May 29, 2008. Retrieved September 16, 2016.

Coordinates: 62 ° 18 ′  N , 6 ° 31 ′  W