Mýlingur
The Mýlingur [ ˈmʊilɪŋgʊɹ ] (564 m) is a mountain in the Faroe Islands on the northwestern tip of Streymoy .
The Mýlingur is at its sea side, a perpendicular in the North Atlantic sloping cliff . The summit is also the northernmost summit of the main island Streymoy, and accordingly this cape is often used as a reference point for ship positions northwest of the Faroe Islands.
In Faroese sources it reads like this:
- Early on the morning of November 22nd [1940] , they passed [the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau ] Fugloy about 30 nautical miles apart . Everything seemed to be going according to plan, but at 4 p.m., when the ships were 145 nautical miles northwest of Mýlingur , the British auxiliary cruiser (an armed cargo ship) Rawalpindi targeted them and did not hold back.
- ( Niels Juel Arge : Striðsárini , Volume 1)
Mind you, 145 nautical miles from Mýlingur are almost halfway to Iceland , and accordingly this battle is located in the non-Faroese springs southeast of Iceland. In any case, the Rawalpindi was sunk by the Gneisenau that day at 7:00 p.m.
From the land side, you can approach Mýlingur on a hiking trail from the village of Tjørnuvík . The British Maria Expedition of 1854 provided an impressive report on an ascent of Mýlingur .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Voyage with the yacht Maria to the Faroe Islands in 1854 , Chapter IV The Myling Head on Wikisource
Coordinates: 62 ° 18 ′ N , 7 ° 12 ′ W