Lítla Dímun
Lítla Dímun | |
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Waters | Atlantic Ocean |
Archipelago | Faroe Islands |
Geographical location | 61 ° 37 '59 " N , 6 ° 42' 29" W |
surface | 80 ha |
Highest elevation | Rávan 414 m |
Residents | uninhabited |
Lítla Dímun [ ˈlɞʏtlʌ ˈdɞʏmʊn ] normalized [ ˈlʊitla ˈdʊimʊn ] ( Danish Lille Dimon , German Klein-Dimun ) is the smallest of the 18 islands in the Faroe Islands and the only one of them that is permanently uninhabited.
Lítla Dímun belongs historically and geographically to the neighboring island of Stóra Dímun (Greater Dimun) and is upstream from Suðuroy . Administratively, the island belongs to the municipality of Hvalba on Suðuroy.
The name Dímun probably comes from the Celtic and then meant two hills in allusion to the two neighboring islands of Groß-Dimun and Klein-Dimun.
Little Dimun was never settled by humans. Many puffins nest here and graze 270 sheep (as of 2004), which are brought to the island in a fishing boat in spring and caught again for shearing in autumn . The fact that sheep are kept here is already mentioned in the Faroese saga. A feature of the island is that the tip of the island is often stuck in a lenticular cloud , which then looks like a hat on the island.
In 1850, the island was auctioned for 5000 Danish Reichstaler to interested parties from Hvalba and Sandvík . According to tradition, the royal Danish monopoly trade representative from Tvøroyri also increased the auction price in order to make what had previously been royal property artificially more expensive. The island is visited by tourists twice a year.
vegetation
Lítla Dímun is the island with the least biodiversity in the Faroe Islands.
Faroese | German | Botanical |
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Árshúsagras | Annual bluegrass | Poa annua |
Hálshvít baldursbrá | Coastal chamomile | Matricaria maritima |
Jarðlagdur krásarvi | Lying fattening herb | Sagina procumbens |
Læknaeirisgrass | Real spoonbill | Cochlearia officinalis |
Opinekruarvi | Common chickweed | Stellaria media |
Reyðvingul | Red fescue | Festuca rubra |
Rísið húsagras | Common bluegrass | Poa trivialis |
Ullhært legugras | Woolly honeygrass | Holcus lanatus |
Vanligt høsnagras | Common hornwort | Cerastium fontanum |
Youth project "Silent Islands" 2006
In the summer of 2006, 28 young people from Iceland (11), Norway (8), Greenland (3) and the Faroe Islands (6) were abandoned for three days on Lítla Dímun as part of the “ Silent Islands ” project . They didn't have a cell phone, laptop, camera, watch or television. Instead, they were given a diary and a pencil each. You should be left to yourself to describe your impressions of what it is like to live in complete isolation, silence and solitude. This resulted in a play that was performed in Gøta .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Of sheep and whales . In: The Kitzinger . June 27, 2015, p. 33 .
- ↑ Lost and forgotten, but alive: Faroe Islands . In: Tagesanzeiger . June 17, 1999, p. 81 .
- ^ Kaushik: The Cloud Covered Island of Litla Dimun. November 18, 2011, accessed November 10, 2017 .
- ↑ James Proctor: Faroe Islands . Bradt Travel Guides, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78477-013-6 , pp. 148 ( google.de [accessed on November 10, 2017]).
- ↑ Suðuroy - EN - Events - Trip to Lítla Dímun. Retrieved November 10, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.katma.no/international/faroe-islands