Søltuvík
Søltuvík is an uninhabited bay on the west coast of Sandoy , Faroe Islands .
The bay is about 4–5 km west of Sandur ( see map of the area ). Around 1900 a plot of land was fenced in here for the purpose of reclamation and is still used today for agriculture. Later a road was built here from Sandur.
In front of the actual bay there is an archipelago , so that the bay can only be approached in a small boat in very calm weather.
In a storm in November 1895 , a British 3000 ton steamer was wrecked in the archipelago. Only the Rostock seaman Heinrich Anders was able to save himself from the sinking ship. He was washed overboard and grabbed a hatch to which he clung. It then drifted with the current until it was retrieved ashore at Kirkjubøur 14 hours later . The loading hatch was retained and now serves as a table top in the Roykstova in Kirkjubøur.
Web links
- Stamps.fo: Sandoy (basis of this article)
Coordinates: 61 ° 50 ′ 52 " N , 6 ° 55 ′ 26" W.